Efficient reliable unicast and multicast transport protocol.

For details of usage, protocol specification, FAQ, etc. please check out the Wiki.

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Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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Client API

aeron-client

Samples

aeron-samples

Media Driver

aeron-driver

Common Classes/Methods

aeron-common

You require the following to build Aeron:

• Latest stable Oracle JDK 8

You must first build and install Agrona into the local maven repository

$ ./gradlew

After Agrona is compiled and installed, then you can build Aeron.

Full clean and build of all modules

$ ./gradlew

You require the following to build Aeron with C++:

• 2.8 or higher of CMake
• C++11 supported compiler for the supported platform

Full clean and build of all modules

$ cd cppbuild
$ ./cppbuild

Start up a media driver

$ java -cp aeron-samples/build/libs/samples.jar uk.co.real_logic.aeron.driver.MediaDriver

You can run the BasicSubscriber from a command line

$ java -cp aeron-samples/build/libs/samples.jar uk.co.real_logic.aeron.samples.BasicSubscriber

You can run the BasicPublisher from a command line

$ java -cp aeron-samples/build/libs/samples.jar uk.co.real_logic.aeron.samples.BasicPublisher

You can run the AeronStat utility to read system counters from a command line

$ java -cp aeron-samples/build/libs/samples.jar uk.co.real_logic.aeron.samples.AeronStat

The Media Driver is packaged by the default build into an application that can be found here

aeron-driver/build/distributions/aeron-driver-${VERSION}.zip