Mailman 3 June 2004 - Python-announce-list

ANNOUNCE: xtopdf 1.0: conversion of other file formats to PDF
by aztech1200＠yahoo.com June 10, 2004

June 10, 2004

Vasudev Ram has released v1.0 of xtopdf as an open source project on SourceForge. The URL is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtopdf xtopdf is a project to provide ways of converting the content of other file formats to PDF. Currently supported formats are: 1. Plain text 2. .DBF (XBase) files. Others will follow over time. The software is written in Python. It requires: 1. Python 2.2 or higher (http://www.python.org/2.2.3) 2. The open source version of the ReportLab toolkit (also written in Python). (http://www.reportlab.org) xtopdf is useful for quickly converting plain text files or the content of .DBF files to PDF format. xtopdf is cross-platform - has no OS-dependent code, so should work on any platform where Python runs, including Linux, UNIX and Windows.

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PyTET a Python TET API binding
by Neil Moses June 9, 2004

June 9, 2004

I would like to announce the release of PyTET a Python TET API binding. PyTET is a Python implementation of the Open Group Test Environment Toolkit (TET) API. The implementation has been done using the interface compiler SWIG (http://www.swig.org). PyTET was developed on a RedHat 9.0 Linux using TETware release 3.7, but there is no reason it shouldn't work on any POSIX conforming platform that supports Python and one of TET 3.3, TET3.6 or TETware 3.7. For more information about the release and obtaining the software read the following article: http://lwn.net/Articles/86545 Regards, Neil Moses. The Open Group.

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Open Source Developers Conference Australia 2004
by Jacinta Richardson June 9, 2004

June 9, 2004

G'day folk, I'm the program chair for this conference and we'd love to invite you to submit a paper or two, do a talk and join us generally. This conference is effectively YAPC::AU by a different name (we decided to let a few other people share the conference with us). Python is definately part of this conference. Our call for papers is out! It would be superb to have more speakers. If you haven't presented at a conference before please consider doing a lightning talk. This is a brief (7 minute) talk on one aspect of a topic. The Call for Papers can be found at: http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/call_for_papers.html The important dates are: Proposals deadline: 28th June 2004 Proposals acceptance: 29th July 2004 Submission deadline: 20th September 2004 Review results: 8th October 2004 Proceedings version: 8th November 2004 Conference: 1st - 3rd December 2004 We look forward to receiving your proposals. For further information about the conference please see our website: http://www.osdc.com.au/ Questions can be submitted to osdc-help(a)osdc.com.au I'm sorry about the lack of notice. Jacinta Richardson -- OSDC Program Chair -- ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia | (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001 | _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | | (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' | www.perltraining.com.au |

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BayPIGgies REMINDER: June 10, 7:30pm
by Aahz June 8, 2004

June 8, 2004

The next meeting of BayPIGgies will be Thurs June 10 at 7:30pm. It will feature Bruce Eckel talking about Python's type system. BayPIGgies meetings are in Stanford, California. For more information and directions, see http://www.baypiggies.net/ Before the meeting, we'll continue the tradition started last month and meet at 6pm for dinner, at Jing Jing in downtown Palo Alto. Ducky Sherwood is handling that; please send RSVPs to ducky(a)osafoundation.org Discussion of dinner plans is handled on the BayPIGgies mailing list. NOTE: Please RSVP by 3pm Thurs if you want to attend the dinner. Jing Jing 443 Emerson St. (half block north of University) Palo Alto 650-328-6885 Advance notice: The July 8 meeting agenda has not been set. Please send e-mail to baypiggies(a)baypiggies.net if you want to make a presentation. -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "as long as we like the same operating system, things are cool." --piranha

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ZODB 3.3 beta 1 released
by Tim Peters June 7, 2004

June 7, 2004

I'm pleased to announce the release of ZODB 3.3 beta 1. As always with the first beta release, the feature set for ZODB 3.3 is frozen now. The ZODB 3.3b1 release requires Python 2.3.3. Python 2.3.4 is recommended, and will be required for ZODB 3.3 final. This version of ZODB supports Zope 2 and Zope 3. ZODB 3.3b1 matches the ZODB code included in the ZopeX3-3.0.0b1 release, and contains code that will be released in Zope 2.8. You can download a source tarball or Windows installer from: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.3 The changes since ZODB 3.3a3 consist mostly of fixes for longstanding ZODB bugs, several of which were backported to the Zope 2.7 maintenance branch. The news file lists the changes in more detail: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.3/NEWS.html Since ZODB 3.3 will be at the heart of database operations in Zope 2.8 and Zope 3, it's important that it be tested as broadly as possible. Please download it and give it a try!

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itools 0.4.1 -- docs included
by "J. David Ibáñez" June 7, 2004

June 7, 2004

itools 0.4.1 has been released, besides minor fixes, the big news are: - development has moved from CVS to GNU arch (with wonderful results) - the documentation has been released for the first time Download from (new address): http://www.ikaaro.org/ Browse the archive at: http://in-girum.net/cgi-bin/archzoom.cgi What is itools? =============== Itools is a Python package that encapsulates several Python tools: * itools.uri -- an API to manage URIs, to identify and locate resources. * itools.resources -- an abstraction layer over resources that let to manage them with a consistent API, independently of where they are stored. * itools.handlers -- resource handlers infrastructure (resource handlers are non persistent classes that add specific semantics to resources). This package also includes several handlers out of the box. * itools.xml -- XML infrastructure, includes resource handlers for XML, XHTML and HTML documents. Plus the Simple Template Language. * itools.i18n -- tools for language negotiation and text segmentation. * itools.workflow -- represent workflows as automatons, objects can move from one state to another through transitions, classes can add specific semantics to states and transitions. * itools.lucene -- An underway implementation of the famous Jakarta's indexing and search tool. -- J. David Ibáñez Founder and CTO of Itaapy <http://www.itaapy.com> 9 rue Darwin, 75018 Paris Tel +33 (0)1 42 23 67 45 / Fax +33 (0)1 53 28 27 88

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pytz - World timezones in Python
by Stuart Bishop June 6, 2004

June 6, 2004

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pytz/ pytz is a transformation of the public domain Olsen timezone database into pure Python code. This library allows accurate and cross platform timezone calculations using Python 2.3 or higher. This implementation solves the issue of ambiguous times at the end of daylight savings, which you can read more about in the Python Library Reference (datetime.tzinfo). The only remaining inaccuracy is that datetime.strftime only reports the UTC offset to the nearest minute (This is probably a feature - you have to draw a line somewhere). 536 of the Olsen timezones are supported. The missing few are for Riyadh Solar Time in 1987, 1988 and 1989. As Saudi Arabia gave up trying to cope with their timezone definition, I see no reason to complicate my code further to cope with them. (I understand the intention was to set sunset to 0:00 local time, the start of the Islamic day. In the best case caused the DST offset to change daily and worst case caused the DST offset to change each instant depending on how you interpreted the ruling.) Note that if you perform date arithmetic on local times that cross DST boundaries, the results may be in an incorrect timezone (ie. subtract 1 minute from 2002-10-27 1:00 EST and you get 2002-10-27 0:59 EST instead of the correct 2002-10-27 1:59 EDT). This cannot be resolved without modifying the Python datetime implementation. However, these tzinfo classes provide a normalize() method which allows you to correct these values. Installation - ------------ This is a standard Python distutils distribution. To install the package, run the following command as an administrative user:: python setup.py install License - ------- BSD style license. I'm more than happy to relicense this code for inclusion in other open source projects. Example & Usage - --------------- >>> from datetime import datetime, timedelta >>> from pytz import timezone >>> utc = timezone('UTC') >>> eastern = timezone('US/Eastern') >>> utc_dt = datetime(2002, 10, 27, 6, 0, 0, tzinfo=utc) >>> loc_dt = utc_dt.astimezone(eastern) >>> fmt = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z (%z)' >>> loc_dt.strftime(fmt) '2002-10-27 01:00:00 EST (-0500)' >>> (loc_dt - timedelta(minutes=10)).strftime(fmt) '2002-10-27 00:50:00 EST (-0500)' >>> eastern.normalize(loc_dt - timedelta(minutes=10)).strftime(fmt) '2002-10-27 01:50:00 EDT (-0400)' >>> (loc_dt + timedelta(minutes=10)).strftime(fmt) '2002-10-27 01:10:00 EST (-0500)' Latest Versions - --------------- This module will be updated after releases of the Olsen timezone database. The latest version can be downloaded from sourceforge_. .. _sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pytz/ Further Reading - --------------- More info than you want to know about timezones:: http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm Contact - ------- Stuart Bishop <stuart(a)stuartbishop.net> - -- Stuart Bishop <stuart(a)stuartbishop.net> http://www.stuartbishop.net/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFAwyglAfqZj7rGN0oRAlxQAJ9+8J6lTH+jG9VbR6MHWASGjxgyiQCgmvRU 0xU+l0F3MzAfFor6gWQz9s8= =Cdcp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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ANN: PyQwt-4.0rc0 released
by Gerard Vermeulen June 6, 2004

June 6, 2004

PyQwt-4.0rc0 = FAST and EASY data plotting for Python and (Py)Qt. PyQwt is a set of Python bindings for the Qwt C++ class library which extends the Qt framework with widgets for scientific and engineering applications. It supports the use of PyQt, Qt, Qwt, the Numerical Python extensions (either Numeric, or numarray or both) and optionally SciPy in a GUI Python application or in an interactive Python session. The home page of PyQwt is http://pyqwt.sourceforge.net. Main changes in PyQwt-4.0rc0: 1. supports PyQt-3.12, PyQt-3.11, and PyQt-3.10. 2. supports sip-4.0, sip-3.10.2, sip-3.10.1, and sip-3.10. 3. supports Qt-3.3.2 downto -2.3.0. 4. supports MacOS/X. 5. based on Qwt-20040605 (a snapshot later than Qwt-4.2.0rc1). Gerard Vermeulen

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ANN: Python Imaging Library 1.1.5 alpha 1
by Fredrik Lundh June 6, 2004

June 6, 2004

The Python Imaging Library (PIL) adds image processing capabilities to your Python interpreter. This library supports many file formats, and provides powerful image processing and graphics capabilities, including display support for Windows and Tkinter. PIL 1.1.5 alpha 3 is now available from: http://effbot.org/downloads#imaging This release is available in source form only (look for Imaging tarballs). A list of changes can be found here: http://effbot.org/zone/pil-changes-115.htm enjoy, the pil team at secret labs ab "Secret Labs AB -- makers of fine pythonware since 1997"

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BayPIGgies: June 10, 7:30pm
by Aahz June 5, 2004

June 5, 2004

The next meeting of BayPIGgies will be Thurs June 10 at 7:30pm. It will feature Bruce Eckel talking about Python's type system. Before the meeting, we'll continue the tradition started last month and meet at 6pm for dinner, somewhere around downtown Palo Alto. Ducky Sherwood is handling that; please send RSVPs to ducky(a)osafoundation.org Discussion of dinner plans is handled on the BayPIGgies mailing list. (I'm assuming we're going to Jing Jing again, but Ducky will post a correction if I'm wrong. ;-) BayPIGgies meetings are in Stanford, California. For more information and directions, see http://www.baypiggies.net/ Advance notice: The July 8 meeting agenda has not been set. Please send e-mail to baypiggies(a)baypiggies.net if you want to make a presentation. -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "as long as we like the same operating system, things are cool." --piranha

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ANN: Vancouver Python Workshop - Speaker incentives
by Brian Quinlan June 4, 2004

June 4, 2004

What's new? =========== Thanks to the generosity of our hosts and sponsors, the first five people to submit talks will receive a free book package when they attend the conference. The package will consist of: 1. Andy McKay's "The Definitive Guide to Plone" (1) 2. Charles F. Goldfarb and Paul Prescod's the "XML Handbook, Fifth Edition" 3. Mark Lutz and David Ascher's "Learning Python, 2nd Edition" They will also receive a free license for Komodo, ActiveState's IDE for open source languages. To submit a talk, see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/registration/submissions.html For general conference information, see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference The deadline for talk submission is June 15th. About the Vancouver Python Workshop =================================== The conference will begin on July 31st with keynote addresses by Guido van Rossum (the creator of Python) and Paul Everitt (co-founder of Zope Corp). Further talks (and tutorials for beginners) will take place on August 1st and 2nd. The conference will be roughly divided into three tracks: o Python language and applications o Content management with Python (esp. Zope and Plone) o Python for beginners More information see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/ or contact Brian Quinlan at: brian(a)sweetapp.com Vancouver ========= In addition to the opportunity to learn and socialize with fellow Pythonistas, the Vancouver Python Workshop also gives visitors the opportunity to visit one of the most extraordinary cities in the world (2). For more information about traveling to Vancouver, see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/travel.html http://www.tourismvancouver.com Important dates =============== Talk submissions: until June 15th Attendee registration: June 4th to June 30th Late registration: from July 1st Keynotes, preconference sprints & tutorials: July 31st Conference and tutorial dates: August 1st and 2nd (1) If this book is not available at the time of the conference, it will be shipped to the recipient (2) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2299119.stm http://www.mercerhr.com/pressrelease/details.jhtml?idContent=1128760 Cheers, Brian

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Zope X3 3.0.0 beta 1 released
by Stephan Richter June 4, 2004

June 4, 2004

Dear Python community, The Zope 3 development team is proud to announce the first beta release of Zope X3 3.0.0. Zope X3 is the next major Zope release and has been written from scratch based on the latest software design patterns and the experiences of Zope 2. The "X" in the name stands for "experimental", since this release does not try to provide any backward-compatibility to Zope 2. Download http://zope.org/Products/ZopeX3 Installation instructions for both Windows and Un*x/Linux are now available in the top level README.txt of the distribution. Changes to alpha 2 - More packages have been removed from the distribution. This includes the 'session' package and all the packages that deal with Python code inside the ZODB, such as 'zodbcode' and persistent interfaces. - Complete reimplementation of the event system to use subscribers. - Updated the online help system (not to be confused with API doc tool) to reflect the latest APIs and design patterns. - The access log can now be configured via the 'zope.conf' file. - The underlying component lookup machinery has been overhauled. Every Zope thread now knows automatically about the context. This simplified the component lookup API a lot. - Several bug fixes. - The Russian translation was completed and the German one was updated as well. Goals The API is frozen now for X3.0.0. We would like to ask all people to test this release and report any bugs or mis-behaviors! The beta period is scheduled to last for about 1 month. During this month we will try to complete the following tasks: - Fix outstanding bugs. - Optimize critical components to speed up the system. - Write and update documentation. - Add and complete translations. - Remove as many XXX comments as possible. There is still much to do! Even if you are not a programmer, you can help! Please send any bug reports and comments to zope3-dev(a)zope.org! Thank you very much in advance for your help! Contributors Jim Fulton, Marius Gedminas, Fred Drake, Philipp von Weitershausen, Stephan Richter, Dmitry Vasiliev, Scott Pascoe, Bjorn Tillenius, Eckart Hertzler, Roger Ineichen, Stuart Bishop Thanks to everyone!

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ANN: Vancouver Python Workshop - Registration open!
by Brian Quinlan June 4, 2004

June 4, 2004

What's new? =========== Vancouver Python Workshop registration is now open. Thanks to the generosity of our hosts and sponsors, the first fifteen people to register will receive a free copy of either: 1. Andy McKay's "The Definitive Guide to Plone" 2. Charles F. Goldfarb and Paul Prescod's the "XML Handbook, Fifth Edition" 3. Mark Lutz and David Ascher's "Programming Python, 2nd Edition" The first to register will get the first choice of books so sign-up soon! To register, see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/registration For general conference information, see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference The deadline for early bird registration fee is June 30th. About the Vancouver Python Workshop =================================== The conference will begin on July 31st with keynote addresses by Guido van Rossum (the creator of Python) and Paul Everitt (co-founder of Zope Corp). Further talks (and tutorials for beginners) will take place on August 1st and 2nd. The conference will be roughly divided into three tracks: o Python language and applications o Content management with Python (esp. Zope and Plone) o Python for beginners More information see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/ or contact Brian Quinlan at: brian(a)sweetapp.com Vancouver ========= In addition to the opportunity to learn and socialize with fellow Pythonistas, the Vancouver Python Workshop also gives visitors the opportunity to visit one of the most extraordinary cities in the world (1). For more information about traveling to Vancouver, see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/travel.html http://www.tourismvancouver.com Important dates =============== Talk submissions: until June 15th Attendee registration: June 4th to June 30th Late registration: from July 1st Keynotes, preconference sprints & tutorials: July 31st Conference and tutorial dates: August 1st and 2nd (1) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2299119.stm http://www.mercerhr.com/pressrelease/details.jhtml?idContent=1128760 Cheers, Brian

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ruleCore 1.1beta3
by marco＠analog.se June 3, 2004

June 3, 2004

This release is hopefully the last beta before 1.1 and should be used instead of 1.0. It contains mainly a number of small fixes and better documentation. ruleCore is a kind of rule engine designed for detection of complex patterns of events. RuleCore can be configured to detect a number of interesting patterns in the events that enter the engine. The most obvious ones would be sequences of events, events combined with logical operators (and, or, not). A more advanced use would be to say something about time. For example that a sequence of events must occur within five hours or that a deadline event must come before next tuesday after the occurance of another starting event. The engine can also detect that an event is missing. The complex event detection capability is the main focus of ruleCore and thus there is many things missing. Such as delivery of detection events to subscribers and so on. The main use would then be to use ruleCore as an event detection component in a bigger system. The events, we imagine, are sent to the ruleCore engine from a number of busines systems or other applications with the capability to generate events. Events can be sent to ruleCore through plain TCP/IP sockets (very simple string format), XML-RPC, The IBM WebSphere message queue or the Rendezvous message bus from Tibco Inc. ruleCore home page: www.rulecore.com Download from Sourceforge: www.sourceforge.net/projects/rulecore The business people would call this type of systems for "Business Activity Monitoring" BAM or "Business Event Management" BEM solutions.

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my cgipm and std python cgi
by Dave Hastings June 2, 2004

June 2, 2004

I have added a link to the manual that was created for our new CGI module. I hope this clears up some questions and confusion about the module. http://www.unixbeast.com/CGIpm/vote.cgi . The manual is in PDF format. Please keep in mind the manual, in its current state, was written with the idea that the module was going to be named CGIpm. It will be changed when the new name is set. The module was not intended to be better than or replace the existing cgi module that is built in with python. It is rather an expansion so to speak. All the functions and their definitions are outlined in the manual listed above. Looks like 'CGIpy' is still winning by a bunch ! Dave cgipm(a)unixbeast.com

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last chance for online EuroPython registration!
by Martijn Faassen June 2, 2004

June 2, 2004

Online registration for EuroPython 2004 is open until 3 June at 23.00 CET -- that's just a week away. That is *tomorrow* at the time of this writing. So if you haven't registered yet, do so soon! Registration at the door will be possible, but more costly and cash only. Don't miss out on what will be *the* European Python and Zope event of the year! To register online, visit: http://www.europython.org/conferences/epc2004/registration_html For more information about EuroPython 2004, see our website: http://www.europython.org

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pyrad 0.7 - native python RADIUS implementation
by Wichert Akkerman June 2, 2004

June 2, 2004

pyrad is an implementation of a RADIUS client and server as described in RFC2865, 2866, and others. It takes care of all the details like building RADIUS packets, sending and receiving them, and en-/decoding responses. (RADIUS is a common protocol used for authentication, authorisation and accounting for remote access (and similar) services). Changes since previous release ------------------------------ New features on request of Thomas Boettcher from Aachen University: * add HandleAuthPacket and HandleAcctPacket hooks to Server class * Pass on dict attribute when creating a reply packet * Allow specififying new attributes when using Server.CreateReplyPacket Example ------- Here is an example of doing a authentication request: import pyrad.packet from pyrad.client import Client from pyrad.dictionary import Dictionary srv=Client(server="radius.my.domain", secret="s3cr3t", dict=Dictionary("dicts/dictionary", "dictionary.acc")) req=srv.CreateAuthPacket(code=pyrad.packet.AccessRequest, User_Name="wichert", NAS_Identifier="localhost") req["User-Password"]=req.PwCrypt("password") reply=srv.SendPacket(req) if reply.code==pyrad.packet.AccessAccept: print "access accepted" else: print "access denied" print "Attributes returned by server:" for i in reply.keys(): print "%s: %s" % (i, reply[i]) And an example for a trivial RADIUS server: from pyrad import dictionary, packet, server class FakeServer(server.Server): def _HandleAuthPacket(self, fd, pkt): server.Server._HandleAuthPacket(self, fd, pkt) reply=self.CreateReplyPacket(pkt) reply.code=packet.AccessAccept self.SendReplyPacket(fd, reply) srv=FakeServer(dict=dictionary.Dictionary("dictionary")) srv.hosts["127.0.0.1"]=server.RemoteHost("127.0.0.1", "s3cr3t", "localhost") srv.BindToAddress("") srv.Run() Requirements ------------ pyrad requires Python 2.2 or later. Author, copyright, availability ------------------------------- pyrad was written by Wichert Akkerman <wichert(a)wiggy.net> The current version and documentation can be found at its homepage: http://www.wiggy.net/code/pyrad/ Copyright 2002-2004 Wichert Akkerman. All rights reserved. pyrad is distributed under the BSD license. Please see the source archive for the full license text. -- Wichert Akkerman <wichert(a)wiggy.net> It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple.

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itools 0.4 released
by "J. David Ibáñez" June 2, 2004

June 2, 2004

itools 0.4 provides: * itools.uri -- an API to manage URIs, to identify and locate resources. * itools.resources -- an abstraction layer over resources that let to manage them with a consistent API, independently of where they are stored. * itools.handlers -- resource handlers infrastructure (resource handlers are non persistent classes that add specific semantics to resources). This package also includes several handlers out of the box. * itools.xml -- XML infrastructure, includes resource handlers for XML, XHTML and HTML documents. Plus the Simple Template Language. * itools.i18n -- tools for language negotiation and text segmentation. * itools.workflow -- represent workflows as automatons, objects can move from one state to another through transitions, classes can add specific semantics to states and transitions. * itools.lucene -- An underway implementation of the famous Jakarta's indexing and search tool. Download from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14617&package_id=8676… The documentation is under development and will be posted soon. Cheers, -- J. David Ibáñez Founder and CTO of Itaapy <http://www.itaapy.com> 9 rue Darwin, 75018 Paris Tel +33 (0)1 42 23 67 45 / Fax +33 (0)1 53 28 27 88

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CFP: The 3rd Workshop on Reflective and Adaptive Middleware
by Nanbor Wang June 2, 2004

June 2, 2004

My sincere apology to those who receive multiple copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The 3rd Workshop on Reflective and Adaptive Middleware (RM2004) in conjunction with the 5th International Middleware Conference 2004 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Tuesday October 19, 2004 http://www.txcorp.com/~nanbor/RM2004/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Overview -------- Most of the middleware used and developed today is characterised by its inflexibility in adapting to different target environments and application areas. This lack of adaptability usually comes from the fact that middleware is traditionally built as a single monolithic entity. This inflexibility usually can be characterised by either the inability to adapt the behaviour of the platform, the inability to adapt its structure, or even both. In application domains such as mobile computing, distributed multimedia, and distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems, where resources are both constrained and variable in time, having the ability to reconfigure the middleware in order to optimise the resource usage and/or provide the desired quality of service (QoS) becomes a key feature. Applying reflective techniques to middleware in order to "open up" the implementation, is one of the ways to provide a greater degree of configurability and dynamic adaptability at the middleware level. In the past few years, researchers have been experimenting with the use of reflection, component-based software engineering, software architecture design patterns and component frameworks, to achieve these goals. Following the success of the past two workshops, RM2004 aims at providing researchers with a leading edge view on the state of the art in reflective and adaptive middleware, and with the challenging problems that remain unsolved. This workshop permits researchers from around the world investigating middleware adaptation to interact and share ideas. It will provide the platform to further the application of adaptive middleware techniques to a variety of domains, such as medicine, command and control, homeland security, entertainment and commerce. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Attendance to the workshop is based on the submission of a position paper, poster, or demo. Position papers should not exceed 6 pages of text using 10 point size type on letter/A4 paper in ACM format. Document templates for most popular document processing tools can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Poster submissions should be accompanied with a 2-page abstract summarizing the poster. Similarly, demo submissions should be in the form of 2-page abstract. Papers and extend abstracts should be emailed to Nanbor Wang at <nanbor(a)txcorp.com> with subject line clearly identifying "RM2004 submission" before submission deadline. All papers and abstracts should be in either PS, PDF or Microsoft Word, format. All workshop papers will be published via ACM's Digital Library. Selected extended, enhanced papers will be invited for publishing in the IEEE Distributed Systems Online. Topics of interest to this workshop include, but not limit to the following: * Design and performance of adaptive reflective middleware platforms * Application of adaptive and reflective middleware techniques to achieve reconfigurability and/or adaptability * Application of adaptive and reflective middleware techniques to achieve separation of concerns * Design of Meta Object Protocols (MOP) for adaptive and reflective middleware * Experiences with adaptive and reflective technologies in suitable application domains e.g., real-time systems, mobile computing, etc. * Fundamental developments in the theory and practice of reflection, as it relates to middleware * Experience with existing mechanisms, such as CORBA portable interceptors, or the OMG Meta- Object Facility * Consideration of alternative techniques for dynamic configuration and/or reconfiguration * Examination of potentially complementary techniques, such as aspect-oriented programming * Techniques to improve performance and/or scalability of adaptive and reflective techniques * Approaches to maintain the integrity of adaptive and reflective technologies * Tool support for adaptive and reflective middleware * Combination of RM and software development techniques, such as design patterns, component frameworks and software architectures * Design and programming abstractions to manage the complexity of reflective and adaptive mechanisms * Composition of systemic aspects and adaptive behaviours into component middleware applications * Abstraction, specification, and modelling of composable systemic aspects and behaviours in component middleware framework. Important Dates --------------- Paper and abstract submission Saturday, July 10, 2004 Acceptance notification Tuesday, August 10, 2004 Final papers due Wednesday, September 1, 2004 Workshop Tuesday, October 19, 2004 Program Committee ----------------- . Gul Agha..................... University of Illinois at U. Champaign, USA . Anders Andersen.............. University of Tromso, Norway . Gordon Blair................. Lancaster University, UK . Roy Campbell................. University of Illinois at U. Champaign, USA . Renato Cerqueira............. PUC-Rio, Brazil . Angelo Corsaro............... Washington University in St. Louis, USA . Geoff Coulson................ Lancaster University, UK . Edward Curry................. National University of Ireland, Ireland . Alan Dearle.................. University of Saint-Andrews, Scotland . Frank Eliassen............... University of Oslo, Norway . Kurt Geihs................... TU Berlin, Germany . Christopher Gill............. Washington University in St. Louis, USA . Pilar Herrero................ Unisersidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain . Jadwiga Indulska............. University of Queensland, Australia . Fabio Costa.................. Federal University of Goias, Brazil . Joseph Loyall................ BBN Technologies, USA . Sara Tucci Piergiovanni...... University La Sapienza, Italy . Catalin Roman................ Washington University in St. Louis, USA . Corrado Santoro.............. Universita' di Catania, Italy . Douglas Schmidt.............. Vanderbilt University, USA . Richard Staehli.............. Simula Research Lab, Norway . Carolyn Talcott.............. SRI International, USA . Gautam Thaker................ Lockheed Martin, USA . Emiliano Tramontana.......... Universita' di Catania, Italy . Nalini Venkatasubramanian.... University of California at Irvine, USA . Steve Vinoski................ IONA Technologies, USA . Nanbor Wang.................. Tech-X Corporation, USA Organizers (* Primary contact) ---------- . Angelo Corsaro............... Washington University at St. Louis, USA . Fabio Costa.................. Federal University of Goias, Brazil . Geoff Coulson................ Lancaster University, UK . Nalini Venkatasubramanian.... University of California at Irvine, USA * Nanbor Wang.................. Tech-X Corporation, USA <nanbor(a)txcorp.com> . Renato Cerqueira............. PUC-Rio, Brazil . Richard Staehli.............. Simula Research Lab, Norway -- Nanbor Wang -*- nanbor(a)txcorp.com -*- http://www.txcorp.com Tech-X Corp., 5621 Arapahoe Ave, Suite A, Boulder CO 80303 tel: 303.448.0729 -*- fax: 303.448.7756

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new CGI module vote
by Dave Hastings June 1, 2004

June 1, 2004

My partner and myself have created a new python module that reflects the cgi.pm perl module. The new python module provides functions for HTTP header and environment purposes, HTML forms, and general HTML shortcuts. If you are familiar with the cgi.pm perl module then you should already know what our new python module includes since we tried to incorporate all of the functions. We created this module for people who would really like to use the cgi.pm perl module or who would like the functionality that the perl module provides, but are not enthused to program in perl. We have completed the module. There does remain one thing before we can announce the module on the announce list, it needs a name. We have created a web page (using the new python module) that has a vote on it. I am asking for people to go to http://www.unixbeast.com/CGIpm/vote.cgi and vote on what you think the most fitting name would be. CGIpy seems to be the most popular right now. Once we feel that there are enough votes we will give the winning name to the module and I will again post to the announce list announcing the module itself, and where to download it. Thank you so much for you time - David Hastings cgipm(a)unixbeast.com - Michael Sampson samp0082(a)umn.edu

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reStructuredText Cheat Sheet
by David Goodger June 1, 2004

June 1, 2004

I whipped together a cheat sheet for reStructuredText: 1 page for syntax, and a 1 page reference for directives and roles. Please take a look: <http://docutils.sf.net/docs/rst/cheatsheet.txt> (not meant to be converted to HTML; use the source text as-is). Feedback is welcome. -- David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>

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