Subj : ANNOUNCE: OpenInteract Web Application Server
To   : All
From : Chris Winters
Date : Tue Feb 06 2001 06:50 pm

From: Chris Winters <cwinters@optiron.com>

I'm jazzed to announce the public release of OpenInteract, an
extensible web application framework using mod_perl and the Template
Toolkit as its core technologies.  But the README already does all the
heavy lifting:

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WHAT IS IT?
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OpenInteract is an extensible application server using Apache and
mod_perl built for developers but also to be manageable almost
entirely via the web browser. It includes:

 - A robust system of components built on templates that can
access
 your data just about any way that you can think of.

 - A very flexible separation of presentation and data
access: you can
 use one template for accessing data from different sources
(e.g., a
 listing of users from the system, from an LDAP server, from
an NT/SMB
 authentication controller, etc.) or you can use one set of
data to
 fill multiple templates.

 - A consistent security mechanism makes it a snap to
control security
 for users and groups not only at the task level, but also
at the
 individual data object level.

 - A simple user and group-management system that allows
users to
 create their own accounts and an administrator to assign
them to one
 or more groups.

 - A convenient packaging system that makes it simple for
developers
 to distribute code, configuration and all other information
necessary
 for an application. It also makes the installation and
upgrading
 processes very straightforward.

 - An integrated, database-independent method for
distributing data
 necessary for a package. You should be able to install any
 package on any database that's been tested with
OpenInteract. (Some
 of this work must be done by the package authors, but
OpenInteract
 tries to make this as painless as possible.)

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OpenInteract is available via CPAN in a bundle form ('Bundle::OpenInteract') 
for EZ install. SourceForge currently hosts
CVS and mailing lists at:

 http://sourceforge.net/projects/openinteract/

Other information about the project (including press releases) is
available at:

 http://www.openinteract.org/

OpenInteract is available under the same Artistic/GPL license as
Perl. Hope you find it as much fun as I do!

Chris

--
Chris Winters (chris@cwinters.com)
Building enterprise-capable snack solutions since 1988.

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