Kauri, a holistic Web framework April 7, 2008
Posted by Jerome Louvel in Ecosystem, Restlet General.1 comment so far
Last week, we met Outerthought, the creators of Daisy CMS. We use Daisy to run our Restlet community wiki and we found it very powerful and flexible. For example, there is an integrated book publishing feature, with table of contents edition, clean PDF and HTML generation and complete user management.
Outerthought has also been a very active Restlet contributor recently and they are now working on a new Web framework called Kauri. What is new with Kauri is the desire to address the needs of all the team members involved in Web application development and provide them an integrated solution, from the front-end to the back-end. This project also has a strong focus on REST and modularity and is built on top of other open source projects including Restlet, jQuery and Spring.
We spent a great day meeting Steven Noels, Marc Portier and Bruno Dumon in their nice and modern offices located near Gent (Belgium), introducing each others, sharing our views on open source business development and discussing technical aspects related to Restlet and Kauri. Steven has written a nice blog report on this day.
Restlet 1.1 M3 released April 1, 2008
Posted by Jerome Louvel in JSR 311, NIO, Oracle, Restlet Releases.8 comments
It’s just over a month since 1.1 M2 and we have again made tremendous
progress towards our final release.
Main changes:
- Licensing scheme changed to CDDL 1.0 or LGPL 2.1 or LGPL 3.0
- New JAX-RS extension implementing the draft JSR-311
- New OAuth extension as a pluggable authentication scheme
- New XDB extension providing integration with Oracle embedded JVM
- SSL support much improved with access to new attributes
- XmlRepresentation refactored to support SAX and DOM sources
- Major TransformRepresentation refactoring (config, reuse, SAX)
- Reference class now enforces the usage of valid URI characters
- Grizzly HTTP server now support chunked encoding of responses
Updated dependencies:
- Spring to version 2.5.2
- db4o to version 7.2 (adds transparent update)
- JavaMail to version 1.4.1
- JAF to version 1.1.1
Direct contributors:
- Adam Rosien (OAuth)
- Avi Flax
- Bruno Harbulot
- Chuck Mortimore
- Dan Diephouse
- Jeroen Goubert
- Joe Nellis
- Kevin Conaway
- Marc Portier
- Marcelo Ochoa (XDB)
- Paul J. Lucas
- Peter Neubauer
- Rhett Sutphin
- Rob Heittman
- Stephan Koops (JAX-RS)
- Steve Loughran
- Yuri de Wit
Changes log:
http://www.restlet.org/documentation/1.1/changes
Download links:
http://www.restlet.org/downloads/1.1/restlet-1.1m3.zip
http://www.restlet.org/downloads/1.1/restlet-1.1m3.exe
Maven repositories:
http://maven.restlet.org is updated on the 1st and 15th of each month
http://maven.noelios.com is updated daily with new artifacts
Business Processes meet REST April 1, 2008
Posted by Jerome Louvel in Restlet General.2 comments
An innovating start-up called RunMyProcess is proposing a SaaS (Software as a Service) product that can:
- model your business processes using an intuitive and graphical tool
- host and execute your business processes
- manage them and generate reports
- connect to various on-line applications such as Google Apps, Zoho, FreshBooks, BaseCamp or SalesForce
A RESTful platform has been developed from scratch using a MySQL database and the Restlet project, hosted in a JBoss engine. For the front-end leverages the Adobe’s Flex RIA technology.
Completed with an advanced on-line form product such as frevvo which we presented before, it provides a very attractive SaaS integration solution.
