ANNOUNCE Apache::iNcom 0.08

["Francis J. Lacoste" <fr...@iNsu.COM>]

Hi all,

This is the latest in the series of Yet Another Web E-Commerce
Application Framework.

It is distributed under the GPL and is available from
http://indev.insu.com/iNcom/incom.html

It is not a ready-to-run merchant system but an integration of different
components needed for e-commerce into a coherent whole.

The primary design goals were flexibility and security. Most merchant 
systems will make assumptions in the way your catalog's data, 
customer's data are structured or on how your order process works. 
Most also impose severe restrictions on how the user will interface to 
your electronic catalog. This is precisely the kind of constraints that
Apache::iNcom was designed to avoid.

Apache::iNcom provides the following infrastructure:

    - Session Management 
    - Cart Management 
    - Input Validation 
    - Order Management 
    - User Management 
    - Easy database access 
    - Internationalisation 
    - Error Handling 

Most of the basic functionalities of Apache::iNcom are realized by
leveraging
standard and well known modules like DBI(3) for generic SQL database
access, 
HTML::Embperl(3) for dynamic page generation, Apache::Session(3) for
session
management, mod_perl(3) for Apache integration and Locale::Maketext(3)
for 
internationalisation and localisation.

Here are its assumptions:

     Data is in a SQL database which supports transactions 
     Interface is in HTML 
     Session is managed through cookies 

Requirements

     DBI 1.13 
     mod_perl 1.21 
     libapreq 0.31 
     HTML::Embperl 1.2.1 
     Apache::Session 1.03 + generate_id patch 
     MIME::Base64 
     Locale::Maketext 0.17 + currency patch 
     apache 1.3.6 or later 
     Database which supports transactions (tested with PostgreSQL 6.5.x) 

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Francis J. Lacoste		     iNsu Innovations Inc.	
Vice-Président développement 	      Tél.: (514) 336-5544
francis.lacoste@iNsu.COM	      Fax.: (514) 336-8128