Fabric  0.2.0
Example programs

The examples directory in the distribution contains several example Fabric programs. Each example includes a separate README describing how to build and run the example. The Fabric nodes required to run each example come pre-configured. We briefly list the examples here.

  • examples/hello: Every programmer's favorite program, ported to Fabric. This example creates a persistent object containing the message "hello world" and then outputs that message on the console.
  • examples/sif-hello: A demonstration of the Fabric port of the Servlets with Information Flow (SIF) library [3]. This example shows how web services can be built on top of Fabric.
  • examples/travel: A more complete demonstration of Fabric's features. This application involves coordination between an airline, bank, and customer to negotiate the purchase of a ticket. Each principal (airline, bank, and customer) also has a web-based user interface written using the SIF library.
  • examples/auction: A mobile bidding-agent program. This application demonstrates the mobile-code support of Fabric [1]. It models an auction in which participants submit confidential strategies for bidding and selling.
  • examples/friendmap: Another mobile-code demonstration. This program models a mash-up of social network and a mapping service to map a friend's confidential location.
  • examples/OO7: This is an implementation of the OO7 Object Oriented Database Benchmark [2]. It is written using FabIL, the intermediate language for Fabric, and thus does not benefit from the static information-flow checking that the full Fabric language provides.
  • examples/blog: This is a simple web application implemented in FabIL. It is similar in structure to the Course Management System that we used for evaluating performance of Fabric [4].