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status of OpenIsis development |
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* stable version |
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Version 0.8.6 marks the first version of OpenIsis |
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to contain basic implementations of all major features |
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required for web based publishing of catalogues: |
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- simple queries as typically composed by web search forms |
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- basic formatting (field access and modes) with detailled |
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rendering left to the web frontend code (JSP, PHP ...) |
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All features present in 0.8.6 are and will be supported |
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with the same syntax. |
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In most situations you should use the most recent version, |
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but not rely on the new features. |
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If in doubt, please contact us. |
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*devel developer version: use with caution! |
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Since summer 2002 we are developing the various 0.8.7.x versions. |
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They include |
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- writing capability |
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- new B-L-Tree index |
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- server side sessions |
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- threadsafe buffered IO |
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- preliminary Tcl binding |
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- XML conversion |
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Most new features where planned carefully and prepared by a |
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lot of paperwork. |
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However, as long as the number is 0.8.7.*, all features introduced |
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since 0.8.6 are considered experimental and might still need to be changed. |
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So before you are going to base a lot of new work on these features, |
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it's recommended that you contact us in order to learn |
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detailled up-to-date status. |
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Update: as of March 03, we have the core of a multi-threaded |
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server engine (request dispatcher, session handling) running, |
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a Tcl/Tk GUI demo using TSPs (Tcl Server Pages) and Java code |
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to convert to/from XML. |
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While basically all is as planned, we may remove the Sessions |
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from the API before blessing it 0.8.8. |
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Update: as of April 03, Version 0.8.7.5 is the last to contain |
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all that devel stuff. Version 0.8.8 will have explicit |
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passing of Session removed, i.e. change the API. |
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* plans for 2003 |
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(... not necessarily in exactly that order) |
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- within short, the new index should support immediate update |
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(DONE) based on basic formatting (TODO) |
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- by end of winter, a local implementation of the server interface |
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should be basis for a first Tk based GUI (Demo DONE) |
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- in spring, a single threaded but multi-session server with |
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GUI client should give proof of all those concepts, |
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marked by version 0.9 (Tests DONE) |
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- during summer, the server should actually run multithreaded |
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and Java, Perl and PHP will get a client binding |
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- once the formatting has gotten a complete overhaul, |
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we may consider OpenIsis "grown-up" and put version 1.0 |
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under the christmas tree |
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... ToDo |
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$Id: Status.txt,v 1.5 2003/04/07 16:15:50 kripke Exp $ |