What is ADruid ?

ADruid stands for "Apache Druid Configurator". It is a program designed to configure graphically the Apache web server. It is written in Java and uses the Swing library from Netscape Corp. and Sun Microsystems.

This program has been developed by Patrice Bensoussan (pbensous@essi.fr) and Thierry Bensoussan (tbensous@essi.fr) for the Internet course teached at ESSI by Michel Buffa.

During the development of this program, we have tried to stay as independent as possible of the syntax and the type of options used in the configuration files of Apache. The result is here : the GUI is generated dynamically at run-time. Each option is described in a separate text file. This means there is no need to recompile the application to add, remove or modify an option. It makes it easy to support options of future versions of Apache. A small language has been designed in order to describe options. (see advanced section)

In fact, ADruid could be easily used to generate configuration files for any program using text files for configuration. All you have to do is describe the options and indicate what to generate in the configuration files (see advanced section for futher details).

Installation

In order to use ADruid, you need to have the Swing library installed on your system (version 0.7 is required, 1.0 is NOT supported), and of course a java virtual machine.

Make sure your CLASSPATH is set correctly, go in the classes directory and then run the program by typing ./adruid or java ApacheConfig.

You can try to load a sample configuration file : click on the Open icon and choose the file config located in the example directory.