[Announce] New tool, C++ toolkit and a Z proxy

All,

It's been a little quiet on the list, so here are some new tools we've 
released today, and which some might find of interest.

At heart it is a C++ interface over the YAZ toolkit. There's a higher-level 
wrapper over both the client and server sides which is just as flexible but 
probably easier to work with than the C interface. Of particular interest 
to client developers is a brand-new C++ implementation of the ZOOM API 
(http://zoom.z3950.org/) courtesy of Mike Taylor himself.

Another feature of the toolkit is a generic, stand-alone Z39.50 proxy. It 
can provide access to predefined hosts, or it can be instructed about the 
final target using an OtherInfo record described in the documentation. It 
can be used as a diagnostic (PDU-dumping) tool or firewall-tunnel by any 
Z39.50 client. However, it can also act as a serious performance-booster 
for stateless WWW/Z39.50 gateways by retaining Z39.50 connections between 
requests, and automatically re-using old queries keyed to a session cookie. 
Both PHP/YAZ and our ZAP tool supports this, but the code you'd need to add 
to any existing gateway, regardless of the toolkit, should be fairly 
negligible.

The license is "BSD-like". More info at http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz++/.

Cheers,

--Sebastian
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Sebastian Hammer, Index Data <http://www.indexdata.dk/>
Ph: +45 3341 0100, Fax: +45 3341 0101

Received on Thursday, 24 October 2002 06:26:33 UTC