Update of /project/cl-prevalence/cvsroot/public_html In directory common-lisp.net:/tmp/cvs-serv10850 Modified Files: index.html Log Message: added some personal info as well as a reference to a paper Date: Thu Jul 8 12:59:14 2004 Author: scaekenberghe Index: public_html/index.html diff -u public_html/index.html:1.5 public_html/index.html:1.6 --- public_html/index.html:1.5 Thu Jun 24 00:23:40 2004 +++ public_html/index.html Thu Jul 8 12:59:14 2004 @@ -13,10 +13,23 @@ <h1>CL-PREVALENCE</h1> </div> - <p>CL-PREVALENCE is an implementation of <a href="http://www.prevayler.org">Object Prevalence</a> for Common Lisp.</p> + <p> + CL-PREVALENCE is an implementation of <a href="http://www.prevayler.org">Object Prevalence</a> for Common Lisp. + It was written by and is being maintained by <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/svc">Sven Van Caekenberghe</a>. + CL-PREVALENCE is using <a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/s-xml">S-XML</a> for the XML serialization + protocol (there is also a more Lisp-like s-expression-based serialization protocol). + </p> <p> - Object Prevalence is a simple but interesting concept first proposed by Klaus Wuestefeld in 2001. IBM developerWorks has a reasonable <a href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-objprev/">Introduction to Object Prevalence</a> article. The main Java implementation is called <a href="http://www.prevayler.org">Prevayler</a>, with a (chaotic) wiki site with lots of information and discussions. Basically, the idea is this: + Object Prevalence is a simple but interesting concept first proposed by Klaus Wuestefeld in 2001. + IBM developerWorks has a reasonable + <a href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-objprev/">Introduction to Object Prevalence</a> article. + The main Java implementation is called <a href="http://www.prevayler.org">Prevayler</a>, + with a (chaotic) wiki site with lots of information and discussions. + The following academic paper seems to describe the most essential features of Object Prevalence, without naming it as such: + <a href="http://birrell.org/andrew/papers/024-DatabasesPaper.pdf">A Simple and Efficient Implementation for Small Databases</a> + by Birrell, Jones, and Wobber [1987]. + Basically, the idea is this: </p> <ul> <li>Most databases are only a couple of hundreds of megabytes big, often even less.</li> @@ -53,7 +66,8 @@ <p> You can download the LLGPL source code and documentation as <a href="cl-prevalence.tgz">cl-prevalence.tgz</a> - (signature: <a href="cl-prevalence.tgz.asc">cl-prevalence.tgz.asc</a>) + (signature: <a href="cl-prevalence.tgz.asc">cl-prevalence.tgz.asc</a> for which the public key can be found + in the <a href="http://common-lisp.net/keyring.asc">common-lisp.net keyring</a>) (build and/or install with ASDF). There is also <a href="http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?cvsroot=cl-prevalence">CVS</a> access. </p> @@ -81,7 +95,7 @@ <li><a href="http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/cl-prevalence-announce">CL-PREVALENCE-ANNOUNCE mailing list info</a></li> </ul> - <p>CVS version $Id: index.html,v 1.5 2004/06/24 07:23:40 scaekenberghe Exp $</p> + <p>CVS version $Id: index.html,v 1.6 2004/07/08 19:59:14 scaekenberghe Exp $</p> <div class="footer"> <p>Back to <a href="http://common-lisp.net/">Common-lisp.net</a>.</p>