-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 MidCOM 0.2.0 public Beta Version
After a development phase of roughly four weeks, the next milestone in the development of MidCOM [1] has been reached. Version 0.2.0, the first public beta, is now available for download [2]. Going after the roadmap, we have completed up to Stage four. MidCOM now provides an extensive working framework for application development with Midgard. MidCOM currently features the Advanced Style Engine, the Navigation Access Point System and the possibility for dynamically loaded components. [1] http://www.nathan-syntronics.de/midgard/docs/midcom.html [2] http://users.nehmer.net/~classic/MidCOM-0.2.0.tar.gz The Advanced Style Engine is a powered up replacement for Midgards regular style processing. The basic idea is that you can assign a style to each instance of a component. This allows you to build very modular styles even in complex websites avoiding the problem of one style having close to one hundred Style elements in it. Instead you create a separate style for every component you need and assign it to the respective instances of the component. A completly different problem is solved through the Navigation Access Point (NAP) System. NAP is a specification which allows components to abstractly define what of them should go into the Navigation tree (read "Sitemap") and what not. The NAP System interface provides you access to this abstract tree and completely encaspulates the gory details of pulling this information out of the topic tree. While the first alpha version could only display one component per request, this is not sufficiant most of the time. Often, especially on Homepages, you need a way of collecting different informations together. Dynamically loadable components come into play here. They allow you to "put together" your website using simple commands where you reference to other components via a regular URL. Similar to Lego you only need to plug the whole thing together and let the framework worry about the details. During the next weeks we will take this framework into active usage on one customer website. The next milestone in our MidCOM development will be the automatic Administration Site builder. I would be happy if as much people as possible could test it so that I can get out all of the more important bugs. I will try to put up an bugtracker project for MidCOM on Midgards official Bugtracker as soon as possible. Live long and prosper! Torben Nehmer - -- Torben Nehmer, Munich, Germany http://www.nathan-syntronics.de, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key ID on wwwkeys.(de.)pgp.net: 0x7E9DE456 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9FxqpJPh4Kn6d5FYRAuSgAJ9vUfpeBvn69Io5goSkcGQWM1VyoQCfbVMu OBR8gHVHLHkLelFdMlLam/o= =Ss1t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
