[Mac_crypto] Java/Axis/MySQL/JDOM/0SX Volunteer for IBUC needed

[R. A. Hettinga]

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I've decided to try to get some experience installing and running a
Lucrative <http://lucrative.thirdhost.com/index.php> bearer
certificate underwriting server, on OS X 10.2, for IBUC here at
Farquhar Street. After we get it running, I want to plug it into as
many book-entry value-transfer systems will let me play, commodity,
currency, whatever, keeping my reserve in that system, and doing
bearer certificate withdrawal/deposits in and out of those systems,
using them as custodians in the model I developed for these things
over most of the last decade. 

People click IBUC amounts of gold, or whatever, to IBUC's reserve
account on that system, and IBUC issues them bearer certificates
worth what they've clicked us, less a fee. We're hoping to redeem at
par, and not charge anything to exchange bearer certificates for
other things (spend them on other digital goods, trade them for other
bearer certificates, whatever) while the asset is in bearer form. 
 

For the time being, since the only OSX 10.2 capable machine in the
house is my venerable PBG3, that's where it's going first. There's
the possibility of whatever we do going to other locations on the net
affiliated with IBUC, but, frankly, I'm the only person in the
organization right now who doesn't have a day job and dependents to
care for, so I'm the most able to focus on making this go, if not the
most competent :-). If it works, this PBG3 may end up cementing
itself in place like Cutty Sark, minting away for a while until
retired, nice problem to have, hazard of the job, and all that.


I have the most recent Developer Tools installed, and I run Fink and
keep it and several Fink packages updated, mostly to plink around
with stuff like X-Windows, TeX, Lyx, etc., so I'm not completely
clueless about doing the more mundane stuff involved.

Someday, what I'd like to get to is a relatively painless
package/dmg-level install of Lucrative, and, barring that, something
that people who use Fink can run to get their own mints going. In the
meantime, doing it the hard way and building it up the way the
real-man Unix weenies do would be just fine.


I did say volunteer, didn't I? Good... :-).  

What would be really cool would be for someone in the Boston area to
tote their own PowerBook over here to Farquhar Street and stand over
me while I download various goodies, pound on this until it runs, or
the smoke comes out of the machine, one, but beggars can't be
choosers, I suppose.

Looking through Patrick's Readme file, I need to some stuff, and I've
found not much in the way out there that anyone's exactly this stuff
on the Mac yet. Axis apparently comes with OS X Server, and, no, I'm
not running that. I have Apache, and Java, and MySQL as part of OS X,
so that helps, and, like I said, I have the developer tools stuff on
this Mac as well.

So, I'm looking for people who know how to install the following,
from a cold start, on OS X:

Java JDK 1.4+  (http://java.sun.com)
Axis 1.1b   (http://ws.apache.org/axis/)
MySQL Connector-J or other JDBC driver   
(http://www.mysql.com/products/connector-j/index.html)
MySQL or other database          (http://www.mysql.com/)
JDOM b8  (http://www.jdom.org/)

and then proceed to do the rest of what Patrick's after in his readme
file, <http://lucrative.thirdhost.com/README.txt>.

The javadoc file is here,
<http://lucrative.thirdhost.com/rel3/javadoc/> and the wsdl file
here: <http://lucrative.thirdhost.com/rel3/lucrative.wsdl>, for what
it's worth...

So, if you're interested in doing this, email me directly.

Thanks!

Cheers,
RAH




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R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
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