ANNOUNCEMENT: New AWS version

ANNOUNCEMENT: New AWS version

[Pascal Obry]

Dmitriy Anisimkov and I are happy to announce the availability of the AWS
0.8 release. No you did not missed version 0.7 which was an internal only
release.

AWS stand for Ada Web Server. It is not a real Web Server like Apache. It is
an HTTP component to embedded in any application. AWS is fully developed in
Ada with GNAT.

This new version has a lot of changes:

  - some bugs have been fixed.
  - support for session data.
  - add an internal status Web page.
  - improve a lot the documentation (not yet really good but it gets better :)

At this stage we feel that AWS is ready to build small to medium Web server.

With this new version you'll need latest version of the Socket binding
(version 0.1.9 from ENST).

You can download AWS and the Sockets binding for Win32 directly from:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry/contrib.html

The documentation can be read at http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry/aws.html

The OpenSSL libraries distributed are for Windows GNAT 3.13. GNAT 3.12 users
must build the libraries from sources or obtain Win32 binaries from 
http://vagul.tripod.com/libssl.zip.

Under UNIX you'll have to build the libraries from sources, it is quite easy 
to do so.

See documentation for build information.

Pointers:
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AWS online documentation: 
   http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry/aws.html

AWS sources: 
   http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry/contrib.html

Socket binding:

   for Win32:
      http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry/contrib.html

   for UNIX:
      http://www.infres.enst.fr/ANC/

POSIX Binding:

   for Win32:
      http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry/contrib.html

   for UNIX:
      http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/florist.html

OpenSSL library:

   Sources for UNIX or Win32:
      http://www.openssl.org
      (we have used version OpenSSL version 0.9.5a with AWS v0.6)

   binaries for Win32 with GNAT 3.12:
      http://vagul.tripod.com/libssl.zip

   binaries for Win32 with GNAT 3.13 (and later):
      Included with the main AWS distribution.


Reporting bugs:
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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 :)

Dmitriy & Pascal.

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