[Helma-user] Announcement: Jala 1.0

Tue Feb 6 02:00:15 CET 2007

Hi Robert,

yes thanks very much for publishing this library! I recently implemented
a podcast app here and can see alot of the simliar functionality in your
lib (I wish I had known about it a few months ago! :-) and that in the
future I will switch to instead of my maintaining my own custom written
code.
With the mp3 ID3 tags - I wrote an implementation that can also *write
out* to ID3 tags, but using a different java library then you do. Would
there be any interest for me to clean up my code and contribute it to
Jala?

Also I have been working on some our small custom pieces of code that
might be useful to others but not sure what the best way to put them out
-  is there interest in having mode modules added to Jala or should it
go into helmaLib or should I just start my own lib project? :-)

thanks again for such a great contribution,

Maks.

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From: helma-user-bounces at helma.org [mailto:helma-user-bounces at helma.org]
On Behalf Of robert.gaggl at orf.at
Sent: Tuesday, 6 February 2007 02:19
To: helma-dev at helma.org
Cc: helma-user at helma.org
Subject: [Helma-user] Announcement: Jala 1.0

Hi everybody,

ORF.at is glad to announce the first version of Jala, another fine,
Helma-related open source project.

Jala is a library and utility project initially developed to ease the
work in the software development department of ORF.at. Jala is what was
previously referred to as (the mysterious) "onLib" on this list.

This initial release version 1.0 of Jala primarily consists of a set of
libraries which we've been using for quite some time now in nearly every
application we've developed so far. Therefor, you can expect the code to
work in a pretty reliable, safe and performant way.

Some highlights of Jala include:

    * jala.I18n, a GNU gettext compatible internationalization library
which makes translating Helma applications a breeze. Even localization
of date and number formats and the ability to inject dynamic content
into localized messages are done with a snap. Due to the full
compatibility with gettext's portable object (po) format you can use any
po-capable editor for your translation tasks.

    * jala.AsyncRequest allows spawning of asynchronous requests,
providing a neat way to process time-consuming tasks which otherwise
would pose the risk of a request timeout.

    * jala.ListRenderer, a very flexible library for rendering
collections of HopObjects as lists, including different kinds of
navigation.

In addition, Jala currently contains an Ant-based set of utilities
called HopKit which automates tasks related to I18n and API
documentation. Moreover, Jala provides a client application useful for
debugging XmlRpc services and requests.

Of course, there's even more on the way, eg. a module for handling forms
and submitted data as well as a unit testing environment for Helma
applications. Stay tuned for further releases!

To obtain information about getting and using Jala please point your
browser to the Jala project site at
https://opensvn.csie.org/traccgi/jala/.

We hope you find Jala as classy and useful as we do. And please take
this announcement as a kind invitation to participate in Jala's further
development.

robert
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