README FILE FOR COM.ABLIA PACKAGE
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The package com.ablia.* is mainly dividen in 2 parts: database access framework and servlet/jsp framework (a 3rd part, the bridge framework, is not completely tested yet). The database access library build for you database access bean creating sql code on the fly for insert, update, delete, findByPrimaryKey. 
So you can manage your database tables and relation just like objects. Gives you methods that help you for searching records, getting max values, counting, or simply submitting a sql string.
The servlet/jsp framework let you build a dinamic site using the MVC pattern and connection pools. It gives you a authentication framework, methods for filling objects from html forms, support multipart request (use o'reilly package. see http://www.servlets.com), mailing, custom tags, implementation of cart, bookmarks, banners, and os on.
It is tested with mysql, postgres and informix and on tomcat and resin container.

The library available are tested continuosly because in production in several sites. A stats page let you monitor the load (connection pools stats) and uptime of all the web applications under one container. 

Documentation are available on the sites. The database access library is almost completed. The servlet/jsp framework library plus other utilities almost complete as well. Support is available via email.
 
The code you will write for your application using this library will be very little!. Most of the work  has done by the framework. Thus the class you'll build will be very light and easy to debug. Example will be provided to simplify developing.

Future improvements
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The most important improvements that the library need is a detailed documentation with full working example, and it will be coming soon. And more, the library will be continuosly enhanched to provide more simple way to build applications, especially web applications. 
Support for other database will be added as needed. A part of a framework is a kind of rmi via http where e servlet is the server that provide the answer to remote method invocation. It works but now it is not fully tested because actually no applications need to use it. Maybe it will be enhanced later.
An index service package (that use lucene) with servlet, custom tag, script and so on, will be added very soon to provide a simple way to index html and jsp pages on your site and present easily on jsp pages.


For commercial use you should get the license from 
Ablia S.r.l. license@ablia.com
(see license.txt)

All the information are available at
www.lisea.com 
and then at 
www.ablia.com/java
or via mail at 
abliajar@lisea.com
acolzi@lisea.com

I hope you enjoy using these classes.

Please respect the license for this package. 

Andrea Colzi

 
