Re: use of libwww-5.0

>Given the announcement that W3C has ceased the
>development of libwww  and is transferring all
>future  server work to java based software,
>
>what is the position of the amaya developers?
>
>This information will give an idea of the 
>expected development work with Amaya?

  Good question, since we have a good answer :-)
The Amaya-1.0 release will occurs today for W3C Members,
they will be abble to find the new Amaya version by following
the http://www.w3.org/pub/member/Amaya/ URL ...

  This new version is twofold :

    - it can be conpiled with libWWW as usual. This is the
      estimated "stable" release.
    - it can be compiled with the Kaffe Java interpreter on
      a subset of the platforms (Linux, solaris, sunOs, linux-sparc)
      and then uses the Jigsaw client HTTP classes for network
      accesses. This provides a supported HTTP/1.1 network stack,
      and the long awaited user cache.

The new Amaya-Java also provides an easy way to extend or cusomize
Amaya without requiring a recompilation of the C source code. This
helps a lot especially for those without Motif libraries. Most ot the
Thot API is available from the Java language, providing means for
"enhanced developements".
I will present this work at the WWW6 conference next week during the
Developer's Day.
We expect the Kaffe interpreter (in fact it's a JIT compiler) to
stabilize on not yet supported platforms. Hence the Java based version
will become the standard one in the future releases.

Related URL's :

      http://www.kaffe.org/
      http://opera.inrialpes.fr/tools/Kaffe/messages/
      http://opera.inrialpes.fr/thot/APIman.toc.html
      http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Jigsaw/

I guess it answers your questions.

Daniel

BTW: Thot-2.1 is now available on http://opera.inrialpes.fr/thot/

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Received on Thursday, 3 April 1997 17:44:31 UTC