ANNOUNCE: Mape, release 0.1

Mape - Modular Application Engine, release 0.1
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The Mape Global Development Team is proud to announce first release
of the Modular APplication Engine (MAPE). The goal of this OpenSource
system (licensed GPL/LGPL) is to provide capabilities to write multi-
tier applications in multiple programming languages, use different
GUIs on clients and access multiple database systems.

Whole applications are stored in MAPE system catalog which is stored
in a supported SQL database server. XML is used for application
description - how the application should look and what it should do.
Applications are running on the server, but some parts can run the
client too.

Where the thing can be found - http://mape.jcu.cz.

What can do MAPE now:

* use PostgreSQL for its system catalog location
* access PostgreSQL, InterBase, ODBC and DB2 data sources for
application data
* use GTK+ as a GUI toolkit on clients
* write applications as functions in any language that can create a
shared library
* write applications as Tcl scripts
* use SQL queries for retrieving/storing application data

What you can expect in the future:

* use more DB servers - Oracle, MySQL, ...
* use more GUI toolkits - Qt, text-ones, HTML (so you can use your
Web browser as a client), ...
* use more scripting languages for writing applications - Python,
Perl, ...
* client implementation in Java
* XML-RPC support

Many solutions, source code parts and SGML documentation are inspired
with very good PostgreSQL project. Herein The Mape Development Team
thanks go to PostgreSQL developers.

19-Jul-2001
Mape Development Team