Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: python-clam Version: 0.99 Upstream Author: Maarten van Gompel <proy...@anaproy.nl> * URL: https://proycon.github.io/clam License: GPL-3 Description: Quickly turn command-line tools into RESTful webservices with an auto-generated web interface for human end-users.
CLAM allows you to quickly and transparently transform your command line application into a RESTful webservice, with which both human end-users as well as automated clients can interact. CLAM takes a description of your system and wraps itself around the system, allowing end-users or automated clients to upload input files to your application, start your application with specific parameters of their choice, and download and view the output of the application once it is completed. CLAM is set up in a universal fashion, requiring minimal effort on the part of the service developer. Your actual application is treated as a black box, of which only the parameters, input formats and output formats need to be described. Your application itself needs not be network aware in any way, nor aware of CLAM, and the handling and validation of input can be taken care of by CLAM. CLAM is entirely written in Python, runs on UNIX-derived systems, and is available as open source under the GNU Public License (v3). It is set up in a modular fashion, and offers an API, and as such is easily extendable. CLAM communicates in a transparent XML format, and using XSL transformation offers a full web 2.0 web-interface for human end users. It is used frequently for Natural Language Processing applications. -- Maarten van Gompel Centre for Language Studies Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen proy...@anaproy.nl http://proycon.anaproy.nl http://github.com/proycon GnuPG key: 0x1A31555C XMPP: proy...@anaproy.nl Telegram: proycon IRC: proycon (freenode) Twitter: https://twitter.com/proycon Bitcoin: 1BRptZsKQtqRGSZ5qKbX2azbfiygHxJPsd
