From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c1df757000b34115,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-29 09:45:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!deine.net!teaser.fr!wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail From: Pascal Obry Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: ANNOUNCE: AWS 1.2 Date: 29 Apr 2002 18:45:43 +0200 Organization: Home - http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: avelizy-103-1-3-139.abo.wanadoo.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: wanadoo.fr 1020098739 28892 217.128.47.139 (29 Apr 2002 16:45:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Apr 2002 16:45:39 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23225 Date: 2002-04-29T16:45:39+00:00 List-Id: A W S - Ada Web Server 1.2 release / SOAP 0.9 Authors: Dmitriy Anisimkov Pascal Obry April 29th, 2002, Dmitriy Anisimkov and I are very happy to announce the availability of the AWS 1.2 release. The API could change slightly at this stage but should be fairly stable now. AWS stand for Ada Web Server. It is not a real Web Server like Apache. It is a small yet powerful HTTP component to embedded in any applications. It means that you can communicate with your application using a standard Web browser and this without the need for a Web Server. AWS is fully developed in Ada with GNAT. AWS support SOAP, Server Push, HTTPS/SSL, client HTTP, hotplug modules... We have worked very hard to make this release as stable as possible. Note that Hotplug modules are very nice but have a potentially security hole as it is implemented today. A new secure implementation will be proposed in a future version. The SOAP implementation has been validated on http://validator.soapware.org/. Here are the main changes: - You need GNAT 3.14 to build AWS 1.2 (GNAT 3.13 is not supported anymore). - Add a main procedure termination controller (AWS.Server.Wait) - Fix some memory leak in AWS.Response.Data and AWS.Server.Protocol_Handler for binary data. - In AWS.URL, function URI was not correctly named. It has been renamed Pathname. This is a backward compatibility problem. Path and File function has been added into AWS.URL. - Fix bug to close a connection when server is heavy loaded. - Add AWS.Services.Page_Server service. This service is a straight forward implementation of a simple static web page server. See WPS demo. It supports two template files: 404.thtml and aws_directory.thtml. - Fix race condition in AWS.Server implementation. This was a very nasty bug, sockets could be handled in two different slots. If you are experiencing bug with heavy loaded servers you should plan to upgrade as soon as possible. - Add dispatchers facilities which is more general than the callback procedure (access to procedure) for example it can transport user's data. This is the base of a general framework for high level services. - Add three high level Dispatcher facilities (AWS.Services.Dispatchers): 1) on URI 2) on request method 3) on Host name (also called virtual hosting) - Add AWS.Templates (renaming of Templates_Parser) as this component is a very important one for Web development. - AWS can now have servers binded to different IP addresses if the computer has more than on IP addresses. See AWS.Config.Server_Host. - New version of libssl32.dll and libeay32.dll based on OpenSSL 0.9.6c. - Client handle properly the HTTP continue response message. - Templates_Parser now integrated into AWS.Templates package. This version has a cache fully is thread safe. - Session cookie was set for first path (and sub path) used, it means that it was possible to have multiple session for a Web site. This behavior was the result of a bug. Now a single session is created for the whole site (starting at /). - Fix timeouts for client keep-alive connection. - SOAP handle properly zero length array. - SOAP handle properly Array of Record. - Boolean types are now directly handled on sessions. - Now always install AWS under directory AWS, INSTALL make variable must point to the AWS parent directory. - Plus many small fixes, enhancements and documentation work. You can have a look at docs/TODO file to see what are the topics that we will probably implement in future releases. NOTE: Since we have switched to the .PNG file format we have found that Netscape Navigator is not able to display the PNG transparent layer properly! At this stage we feel that AWS is ready to build small to medium Web servers. AWS has been reported to work on Windows NT/XP, Linux and FreeBSD 4.1. With this new version you'll need at least version 1.0 of the Socket binding from ENST. See pointers below. The OpenSSL libraries (optional) distributed are for Windows only. On UNIX you'll have to build the libraries from sources, it is quite easy to do so. This has been tested under Linux without trouble. See documentation for build information. Pointers: --------- AWS User's Mailing List: http://lists.act-europe.fr/mailman/listinfo/aws AWS Home Page (sources and documentation): http://libre.act-europe.fr/ Templates_Parser sources: Templates_Parser module (sources and documentation) is provided with AWS distribution. Latest version of this module and the documentation can be found at: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry/contrib.html http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry/templates_parser.html Templates_Parser is a very useful add-on for AWS. You should have a look at it if you plan to develop a Web service. Templates_Parser permits to completely separate the HTML design from the Ada code. Some other Templates engine are WebMacro, FreeMarker, PHP, ASP, JSP and Velocity. All of them are based on explicit iterators (#foreach with a variable) where Templates_Parser is based on implicit ones (you use a more intuitive table iterator). Be sure to check the documentation. Only the Velocity project has the goal to support complete separation of HTML design and code. GNU/Ada - GNAT You need at least version 3.14 to use AWS 1.2. ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/ XMLada (optional): You need this library only if you want to use AWS SOAP feature. You need at least XMLada 0.7.1. http://libre.act-europe.fr/ Socket binding: Since AWS 1.2 you need at least version 1.0 of the Socket binding. for Win32: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry/contrib.html http://vagul.tripod.com/adasockets.tgz for UNIX: http://www.rfc1149.net/devel/adasockets POSIX Binding (optional) : for Win32: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry/contrib.html for UNIX: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/florist.html OpenSSL library (optional) : Sources for UNIX or Win32: http://www.openssl.org binaries for Win32: Included with the main AWS distribution (win32 directory). Note that we have used and we distribute (for Win32 platform) OpenSSL version 0.9.6c with this AWS release. OpenSSL have been built with GCC version 2.95.3 with -O3 optimization level. See OpenSSL license (docs/openssl.license). Windows Services API (optional): To build the runme demo as a Windows NT/2000 services you must download the services API made by Ted Dennison for his SETI@Home project. http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/SETI/SETI_Service.html Reporting bugs: --------------- You can report bugs to: Dmitriy Anisimkov anisimkov@yahoo.com Pascal Obry p.obry@wanadoo.fr It would be nice if you could also sent us a note if you are using AWS just to know if it is used at all or not :) And if you are ok, we'll add an entry for your project in the next section. AWS User's Mailing List: ------------------------ A good way to keep informed of AWS news and to share experiences with other AWS users is to register to the AWS dedicated mailing list. See: http://lists.act-europe.fr/mailman/listinfo/aws AWS uses -------- - SETI@Home from Ted Dennison. AWS is used as a "plugable" GUI to retrieve different program status. - DOCWEBSERVER from Wiljan Derks In our department we keep our documents in a directory tree. These documents are all project related and have a certain naming convention to be able to find the right document. In the past I already wrote a program that searches though this directory and then converts the found documents into fixed html pages. With AWS I was able to get a much nicer setup. I have now a server that can do the following: - browse through the projects in explorer style. The html contains info about the document like date and title. - one can check in documents through the web interface - it shows our download page as I have send you in the example - we have now all our documentation in small pieces of html as is needed to build .chm (w2k compiled help) files. For these we use a content file, that is also stored in the document archive. The docwebserver gives by reading all this stuff the direct view on this documentation. On the other hand I can run some tool and automatically generate the .chm files. - OESM Server (OESM=Overall Equipment Status Monitoring) from Wiljan Derks I am working on a project now for our factories. ITEC mainly delivers equipment for discrete semiconductor assembly. Almost all of that equipment is now controlled by a similar Ada 95 based code with having a lot of code in common. One of the common things, is the way we log errors and state changes of our equipment. The OESM Server is an application which copies all this information continuously to its local pc by opening the proper files on the remote equipment. That data copied is also stored in local files. The web server component of the application can then, making use of that data, give reports that show things like the amount of products produced in a certain period, error paretos of equipment, mtbf, %time in production and of course many other things. The cool thing of course is that this information can easily be charted (I am use kavachart) and it allows simple navigation through different groups of equipments and different views on the equipment. - WORM from Pascal Obry (see http://www.ada-france.org/ADHERENTS/101100/05-obry.pdf). A Web server to share bookmarks, this server was using a standard CGI design. To keep session information we were using a GLADE partition. With AWS the design has been really simplified, there is no need for a session partition, there is no need to build all CGI as partitions too. GLADE is now used only to handle distributed objects. Indeed WORM is a multi-server system (using RACW) with a register/unregister mechanism. Also the server seems to be fastest, there is no more CGI to spawn. - Internet Currency Trading System at http://www.actforex.com by Dmitriy Anisimkov This is a server is used to keep historical data about currency trading to build charts of currency prices. The charts viewer part is written in Java and loaded through AWS. This server can be reach on the Internet. Ongoing work is done to based this development on AWS framework only and to remove all the Java layers. It is also interesting to note that this is an heavy loaded server, it handle something like 40 to 50 requests per seconds on a Windows 2000 Server. - http://www.forexcoach.com site is powered by AWS. This site has been done by Dmitriy Anisimkov. Thanks to all who have reported bugs and have sent us patches. Dmitriy & Pascal. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry --| --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination"