[Smartfrog-announce] SmartFrog: Announcement of Open Source Release

[Toft, P. <Pet...@hp...>]

** Smart Framework for Object Groups (SmartFrog)
** Open Source Release Announcement

HP Labs is pleased to announce the immediate, open source release of the
SmartFrog framework. SmartFrog is a technology for describing distributed
software systems as collections of cooperating components, and then
deploying and managing them. It consists of a configuration language, a
runtime component deployment & management system, and a library of
components. SmartFrog is released under the LGPL licence, and is implemented
in Java to allow broad, cross-platform support.

General information on SmartFrog can be found at the project web-pages:

  http://www.smartfrog.org

SmartFrog project development is hosted on SourceForge, including the
current codebase and packaged releases for various platforms:

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartfrog 

There are several mailing lists hosted on SourceForge for discussion and for
getting help:

- sma...@li... is for any SmartFrog-related
announcements, including notice of new releases, events, papers. Etc.

- sma...@li... is for discussion of SmartFrog
development topics, and particularly for discussion of technical issues and
the future direction of the system

- sma...@li... is to get help on any aspect of
using the system, on writing new components to work within the framework,
for reporting defects and to request enhancements or changes

- sma...@li... is for reporting security issues
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With best regards,
Peter Toft,
On behalf of the SmartFrog development team in Bristol and India