Melati 0.50

[TimP <tim(at)paneris(dot)co(dot)uk>]

Hello all, 

The Melati Team are pleased to announce the first beta release 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 - 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, though template engine 
    independance is duie in the next release.

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 Pizey

Member of http://www.paneris.org/