Albatross 0.04 released (first public announcement)

[Dave Cole]

Albatross is a small toolkit for developing highly stateful web
applications.

The toolkit has been designed to take a lot of the pain out of
constructing intranet applications although there is no real reason
why you should not use Albatross for deploying publicly accessed web
applications.

In slightly more than 2600 lines of Python you get the following:

- An extensible HTML templating system similar to DTML including tags
  for:
  - Tree browsing.
  - Macro definition and expansion.
  - Automatic sequence pagination.
  - Lookup tables to translate internal program value to arbitrary
    template text.
- Application classes which offer the following features:
  - Optional server side or browser side sessions.
  - The ability to place Python code for each page in a dynamically
    loaded module, or to place all page processing code in a single
    mainline.
- The ability to deploy applications either as CGI or via mod_python
  by changing less than 10 lines of code.

The toolkit application functionality is defined by a collection of
fine grained mixin classes.  Six different application types and four
different execution contexts are prepackaged, you are able to define
your own drop in replacements for any of the mixins to alter any
aspect of the toolkit semantics.

Application deployment is controlled by your choice of Request class.
It should be possible to develop a Request class for FastCGI or Medusa
to allow applications to be deployed on those platforms with minimal
changes.

Albatross comes with around 120 pages of documentation.  HTML, PDF and
PostScript formatted documentation is available from the toolkit
homepage.

The toolkit homepage:

        http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/albatross/

Merry Christmas!

- Dave

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