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Fabric installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Oct 27 20:09:45 2010
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
To: software-announce@mit.edu
Cc: alexp@mit.edu, cfyi@mit.edu, mhalsall@mit.edu
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:09:40 -0400
I've installed Fabric on Athena. Fabric is a Java-based experimental
language based on "security by design", making it difficult if not
impossible to write insecure applications as security requirements are
enforced by the compiler. The authors describe the system as a
"federated, distributed system for securely and reliably storing,
sharing and computing information".
Since Fabric is very new and somewhat complex there's a significant
learning curve; the best resources to start with are the README:
http://web.mit.edu/fabric_v0.1.0/README and pdf article:
http://web.mit.edu/fabric_v0.1.0/fabric.pdf
http://web.mit.edu/fabric_v0.1.0/README.athena has additional
information including command-line invocation, links to API
documentation and instructions for running the examples, which help a
lot in understanding the system.
Alex
