-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 OpenPrivacy.org (http://www.openprivacy.org) would like to announce the creation of the Talon project (http://talon.openprivacy.org). This release is available at: http://download.openprivacy.org/talon-0.1.0.tar.gz The Talon mailing list is also available: http://openprivacy.org/lists/ Overview: Talon is a simple yet powerful component system similar to XPCOM or Microsoft COM. Talon solves a number of problems with these existing systems and is designed to incorporate Reputations (Sierra) as part of its Component factory mechanism. The use of Reputation to drive component selection enables a Talon based system to evolve over time, becoming more powerful. This mechanism is similar to advanced profiler technologies but works with distributed systems. Advantages: * Thin factory/component mechanism for managing components. * Utilizes Reputations to determine how to best serve/create a Component. Components can be served based on interface name, reputation and bias of the requester. (planned for 1.0) * Simple, easy to use and doesn't require significant modification of application design. * All objects within the system have a unique URI and can be requested from the ComponentFactory via this URI. This is desirable within distributed P2P component environments. * Talon provides a central code/project location for standard interfaces (logging, property management, etc). This enables developers to code to a standard interface across projects. * Maintains object lifetime (pools, singletons, on-demand, etc) without having to dedicate application logic to this task in outside projects. * Talon initializes itself automatically which eases application integration. * Written in 100% Java so that legacy languages don't damage the integrity of the API (no IDL, interface based, etc). * Dual licensed under the GPL and BSD style. This allows Talon to be used within projects from the Free Software Foundation *and* the Apache Software Foundation. Commercial projects may also use Talon as the BSD license is very flexible in this respect. - -- Kevin A. Burton ( [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Cell: 408-910-6145 URL: http://relativity.yi.org ICQ: 73488596 Those willing to give up a little liberty for a little security deserve neither security nor liberty. -- Benjamin Franklin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Get my public key at: http://relativity.yi.org/pgpkey.txt iD8DBQE62Vw4AwM6xb2dfE0RAhrSAKCJ/vyt6BnLScWt/sT6nN7mFdpu0wCeKFIo NzNO8Hsr9LDgmmyQkzTz1vk= =AQas -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]