I'm very happy to announce the first public release candidate of Prudence, an open source web development platform based on Restlet 2.0.
http://threecrickets.com/prudence/ Prudence comes with a comprehensive 100-page manual, a complete example application and an extensive online reference. It's been in development for more than a year and has undergone a lot of testing in live production environments. If you've depended on JEE containers such as Tomcat or JBoss to deploy your Restlet apps, you might be happy to replace them with Prudence. Prudence acts as a Restlet-centric container, fully supporting advanced Restlet features such as virtual hosts and routing, while also providing you with a live administration application, pre-configured "just works" logging, configuration files for daemons/services, debugging information, and deployment by zip file (just like WAR files in JEE). Furthermore, much of the Prudence documentation could be helpful to newcomers to Restlet. See the special page for Restlet users: http://threecrickets.com/prudence/manual/restlet-container/ Beyond functioning as a mere container, Prudence provides a JSP-like view environment, with what might be the most sophisticated caching system you've seen in a web platform, and allows easy prototyping of your Restlet resources and filters. You can do all of this in your choice of six dynamic languages: Python, Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Clojure and Groovy. Velocity and Succinct templating is also included. Enjoy! And please join the Prudence community: http://groups.google.com/group/prudence-community Special thanks go to Noelios, and especially Jérôme, for cultivating such a vibrant community around Restlet. It's a solid foundation. -Tal Liron ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2657949
