SWORD Demonstration Client

This application contains a demonstration client for the SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) project. The client is designed to test connections to digital repositories that support the SWORD Protocol 1.3. This client does not provide backwards compatibility with the SWORD protocol 1.2; download version 1.0 of the client if you need to test the initial SWORD protocol.

The SWORD Protocol uses a subset of the Atom Publishing Protocol and the Atom Protocol to query a set of deposit services that are available from a repository and to submit (post) files to the repository.

Requirements

The SWORD Client is a Java application. It requires Java 1.5. You can download Java from the Java website.

Client Modes

The client supports two modes:

• Command Line - This is a version that runs as a command line tool, with options to control each of the main functions to access service documents and post files to a repository.
• GUI - This is a window based version. This is the default mode if no option is specified to run in command line mode.

About SWORD Client

Further information about the SWORD Client, including project partners and links to the main website can be found on the About page.