February Executive Committee Report
This month, as you might imagine, has been dominated by work on the upcoming cataloging-staff client demo release. We’re progressing smoothly and steadily, and expect to reach our target release date of March 18th. Allow me to reiterate some of the features that we expect to have available in this upcoming demonstration release:
The birth of OpenSRF
After months of work, buckets of sweat, and one snapshot of code seemingly unrelated to libraries, we are proud to present our first subproject: OpenSRF (Open Scalable Request Framework), pronounced “open surf”. The 0.1 release of OpenSRF represents the culmination of everything we have posted about here, and some things we haven’t. One of the … Continue Reading about The birth of OpenSRF →
The Router : More on Communication
We’ve recently completed version 0.1 of what we call, simply, “The Router”. Someday a different loving name will likely fall from the sky, but until then… The Router is more accurately described as a Jabber Request Load Balancer and Message Router/Broadcaster. Our main use is to employ The Router balancing client requests across a redundant … Continue Reading about The Router : More on Communication →