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Scone is using on several Java libraries and tools. More Information on the included packages can be found on the download page.

We are using the following tools:

• IBM's WBI (Web Based Intermediary) as Proxy.
• Arthur Do's HTML Streamtokenizer, also available at SourceForge. Scone includes a modified version of this tokenizer, since we needed a modified JavaScript and CSS handling.
• MySQL - a fast and very popular open source RDB system.
• MySQL Connector/J (was mm.mysql) - A very fast JDBC driver for MySQL fully written in Java.
• The Java HTTPClient package: A GNU-LGPL software to establish HTTP-connections.
• ACME Utilities: Some useful freeware Java classes. We use the classes for the robot exclusion protocol.
• Horst Heistermann's WebWindow component is a tool needed to generate thumbnails.

Related Projects:

Several related projects implement programmable proxy server with a comparable functionality to WBI, which is itself used by Scone as basis for its proxy component. Other projects present other promising concepts to augment the functionality of the Web.

• Arakne is an open collaborative hypermedia system for the Web. It was developed at the University of Aarhus.
• Muffin is a WWW proxy filtering system, written in Java and developed by Mark Boyns.
• WebSphinx is a Java class library with an interactive development environment for Web robots.
• The extensible Retrieval Annotation Caching Engine (eRACE) is a middleware for the development and provision of intermediary services on the Internet. eRACE is a modular, programmable and distributed proxy infrastructure that collects information from heterogeneous Internet sources and protocols according to end-user requests.
• Pluxy - The pluggable proxy. Pluxy - The pluggable proxy. Pluxy is a modular Web proxy written in Java which can receive a dynamic set of services. Pluxy offers some basic services like collaborative HTTP request processing and GUI management. Pluxy is typically intended to test new proxy mecanisms (filtering, caching, ...) or to develop browsers assistants.
• RabbIT is a Java Web proxy that was developed to speed up using the web. RabbIT removes ads and selected graphics. It also compresses text pages and recodes graphics to decrease the amount of transferred data.
• The V6 Engine is another proxy filtering system written in Objective Caml.
• OreO introduced in 1995 the idea of proxy servers working as ``stream transducers´´.
• "Greasemonkey" is a powerful Mozilla Firefox extension that allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to specific web pages.
• "Microtemplates" are a way of creating templates in HTML that can be evaluated in the browser.

For more Information please contact Harald Weinreich
Last Update: 02-Feb-2009