Announce Melati 0.55

[Tim Joyce <ti...@hoop.co.uk>]

Melati 0.55 is now available for download from http://melati.org

Version 0.55 introduces the following enhancements relevant to this mailing
list readership.

o - support for Tomcat (JSDK 2.2)



What is Melati? (quick read)

Melati allows you to define the fields and records for you application in
one place.  These are then immediately available to all parts of your
application:

o - your template engine
o - your business objects
o - your database

This considerably simplifies (and speeds up) web application development.
Try it :)


What is Melati (more detail):

Melati is a tool for building Java-programmed websites backed by a database.
It provides the following features:

o- a generic database administration system, allowing the site manager to
edit both the contents and the structure of the database through a simple
web based interface.  have a look at this:
http://www.melati.org/melati/org.melati.admin.Admin/melatitest/Main

o - full integration with POEM (Persistent Object Engine for Melati). POEM
provides
    o - an API where the database to be seen as a collection of Java
objects, via a (genuinely!) easy-to-use transparent persistence layer on top
of JDBC.
    o - a low level security model allowing restrictions to be placed on
tables, rows and fields.
    o -industrial-strength open source object database technology,
delivering ODMG 3.0 compliant Java support.

o - close integration with the Velocity and Webmacro templating engines.

o - rapid templating mechanism, using "templets" (sub-templates) for
rendering interface elements (eg HTML input boxes, dropdowns), and providing
an easy interface with persistent objects.

o - cookie-based or HTTP-based login provoked automatically by access
control failure.

Melati's design builds on our experience with previous systems we have
deployed successfully on a number of commercial sites: we feel that it
enables a particularly elegant and productive way of working.

Melati is released under a dual ASF Style / GPL license.  Please join the
mailing lists if you are interested.

http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/melati-users
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Thanks

Tim Joyce