Bindaas Data Access Federation Middleware

Bindaas federates multiple data sources, provides access to them through REST interfaces, and enables query, access, and integration of data from diverse data sources such as MySQL and MongoDB.

Building Bindaas

Bindaas can be built using Apache Maven 3.x and Java 1.8.

$ mvn clean install

Bindaas does not build with JDK 10, due to incompatibilities in Maven plugins.

Executing Bindaas

Once you have successfully built Bindaas, you will find the binary in a compressed format in the binaries folder, as in bindaas-dist-4.0.9-202208101418-min.tar.gz

The exact name of the binary changes based on the version and the times you have built, reflecting the major.minor versions.

Extract this compressed binary.

$ tar xvzf bindaas-dist-4.0.9-202208101418-min.tar.gz

Now binaries/bindaas-dist-4.0.9-202208101418-min will be your BINDAAS-BINARY-HOME.

Bindaas can be executed using the startup.sh script in BINDAAS-BINARY-HOME/bin

$ sh startup.sh

Similarly, you may shut down Bindaas by executing the shutdown script:

$ sh shutdown.sh

If you would like to have an interactive OSGi console with logs displayed inline:

$ java -Dpid=BINDAAS_INSTANCE -Xmx1024m -jar org.eclipse.osgi_3.10.100.v20150529-1857.jar -console

Troubleshooting

If you encounter the error "java.net.SocketException: Can't assign requested address" followed by a few CXF errors when you are on a Mac with a wireless connection, please use the flag "-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true" to fix this, as shown below:

$ java -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Dpid=BINDAAS_INSTANCE -Xmx1024m -jar org.eclipse.osgi_3.10.100.v20150529-1857.jar -console

Verify Setup

To verify everything is setup correctly visit the following url in your web-browser : http://localhost:8080/dashboard/

You should be greeted by Bindaas Login page.

The logs can be found at /log/bindaas.log.

Log in to Bindaas Management Console

Log in using the default, user name: admin password: password

More details on configuring Bindaas can be found from the admin guide.

If you prefer to run Bindaas using its Docker container, please refer to docker/README.md for more details.

Citing Bindaas

If you use Bindaas in your research, please cite the below paper:

• Kathiravelu, P., Saghar, Y.N., Aggarwal, T., and Sharma, A. Data Services with Bindaas: RESTful Interfaces for Diverse Data Sources. In The IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData’19). pp. 457 - 462. Dec. 2019.