A new version (0.40) of SPOPS (Simple Perl Object Persistence with Security) has been released. What is it? From the gospels of the README: SPOPS is a robust and powerful module that allows you to serialize objects. It is unique in that it also allows you to apply security to these objects using a fairly simple but powerful scheme of users and groups. (You can, of course, turn off security if you want.) It's also unique in that for most objects, you will not need to write any code. It's true! A fairly simple configuration file is all you need which you can then feed to SPOPS and have a class for your object ready to go, right out of thin air. Changes with this version include: * Easier initialization for one or many object classes at once * PostgreSQL support, as well as Sybase ASE/ASA and MS SQL Server. (MySQL support continues as before.) * Lazy loading of objects now supported. You can specify a logical group of properties and ask that only those be fetched. Other properties will be fetched on demand. (Tip 'o the hat to Class::DBI and Michael Schwern for inspiration.) URLs: Download the source (also making the CPAN rounds): http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=16810 Release notes/changelog (much more detailed than above): http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=38866 Sourceforge home (mailing lists, CVS, bugs, etc.): http://sourceforge.net/projects/openinteract/ Other home: http://www.openinteract.org/SPOPS/ Finally, I'll be at YAPC North America talking about OpenInteract on Friday (June 15) morning, and SPOPS will surely be involved. Stop by! Thanks! Chris -- Chris Winters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Building enterprise-capable snack solutions since 1988.
