Distributed MARF PoC Demo Released

Announcement of the initial release of the Distributed MARF
proof-of-concept (PoC) demo implementation.

MARF's pipeline stages can now run on different
computers in more than one number using three
different communication technologies in the PoC.

The technologies include:

* CORBA
* Java RMI
* Web Services

The six implemented services include:

* SpeakerIdent Front-end Service (plus the client),
which are mods from the classical SpeakerIdentApp

* MARF Server Pipeline Service (for distributed pipeline)

* Sample Loading Service

* Preprocessing Service

* Feature Extraction Service

* Training and Classification Service

Included are the source, binary, API and a .pdf doc (doc/api, doc/project/sdd/sdd.pdf),
plus config bundle as well as individual service jars
and a Classification .war file. The release contain
some uncommitted code to the CVS, which will be integrated
in the near future.

Please review for the bugs, limitations, and missing and
planned features in the manual and you can provide
some useful and constructive feedback or patches
on any aspect.

This is a very new and different step for MARF, which
will follow its separate branch of releases. This PoC
demo is based on the snapshot-0.3.0-devel-20060811
plus a lot of additions and some modification to the
classical source tree files.

Download:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=63118&package_id=200730&release_id=442623

- The bundle tarball has everything even the service jars that are also released separately.

- The jars are precompiled for convenience and were used in a quick demo, still maybe the bundle is a more recommended download