askapy 0.9.5

AskApy is a task server. In more words, AskApy is an application server dedicated to excecute administratives tasks or scripts on computers and servers, scattered over complexes architectures, accross multiple firewall, routers and subnets.

Main features:
- Application server services
- Security, User registry, identification, authentification, autorisation (upon Server, Apb an Resources).
- Single signon.
- Affinity and Session.
- Management of multiples Servers in an uniformised area called the family.
- Transparent location of Servers, Apbs an Resources into the family,
- thanks to the Simple Name Service (SNS) and the Uniform Apb Locator (UAL) mechanismes.
- Clusters (based on Twins)
- Support of the Deployement of Apbs components also called Cubes.
- Task server services
- Dedicated mechanisms for the writing of heavyloaded Deamon
- AskApy XQL (AskApy Xml Query Langage) to query and update xml files. (1)
- AskApy AQL (AskApy Attribute Query Langage) to query and update attributes (properties) files.
- A scheduler (KRON)
- A messaging system.
- Protocols and clients
- Protocols are available throught connectors.
- All protocols support SSL (openSSL must be installed).
- Supported protocols
- HTTP connector (nickname web)
- You can connect from any web client like browsers.
- XMLRPC connector (nickname xml)
- You can connect from any client supporting xmlrpc (python, perl, java).
- SOAP connector (nickname soa) (2)
- You can connect from any client supporting soap (python, perl, java).
- FILE TRANSFERT connector (nicknames ftb or ftm)
- Only available from the AskApy client ask.py.
- APB connector (nicknames apb or apm)
- Only available from the AskApy client and the AskApy Graphical client interfaces view.py, ask.py.
- Graphical user interface
- A Graphical framework (based upon view plugins) is provided to design your Views.
- Then your Views are transparently displayable
- from a classic web browser
- from the AskApy Graphical client interface view.py (wxPython must be installed).
- or throught any python Application using the AskApy Graphical class ApbView xPython must be installed).

Enhancements
- 90% of the specs has been implemented and known
- bugs must be tracked down.