[Melati-announce] ANNOUNCE: Melati 0.50

[Tim J. <ti...@ho...>]

The Melati Team are pleased to announce the first beta realease of Melati.

Melati can be downloaded from SourceForge
(http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/melati) or http://melati.org


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

o - A generic database admin system, allowing the site manager to edit both
the contents and the structure of the database through a simple web based
interface.

o - An object layer where the database is seen as a collection of Java
objects.

o - and transparent cacheing of commonly used records, selections and
"computed objects", via a (genuinely!) easy-to-use transparent persistence
layer on top of JDBC.

o - A low level access control system based on a  user/group/capability
model, allowing restrictions to be placed on tables, rows and fields.

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

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 - Close integration with the Webmacro templating engine.


Melati is released under a dual ASF Style / GPL licence, and is currently
being used on several commercial projects.  Please join the mailing lists if
you are interested.

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


This beta release offers the following improvements over Alpha versions of
Melati:

o - Testing and numerous bug fixes
o - Now available as a downloadable zip / tar.gz.
o - Precompiled melati-snapshot.jar allowing easier install.
o - Ant build script
o - Mailing list hosted on SourceForge
o - More documentation
o - Revised licensing - Dual ASF / GPL licensing.


Thanks

Tim Joyce