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SKYRiX Object Publishing Environment
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This directory contains SOPE, the application server hosting the
OpenGroupware.org business logic and web interface.

mod_ngobjweb
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An Apache module for forwarding HTTP request from Apache to a SOPE
application server. This is a non-streaming proxy so that the application
server isn't blocked by IO of slow connections !
(this eliminates the need for threading because of IO, the Apache server
 pool runs the blocking IO operations)

SKYRiX Libraries for XML Processing (skyrix-xml)
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The package contains:
- a SAX2 Implementation for Objective-C
- SaxObjC driver bundles for: libxml2 (HTML, XML), libical (iCalendar, 
  vCard), expat (XML), plists, pyx, CoreFoundation (XML)
- DOM on top of SaxObjC
- an XML-RPC implementation (without the transport layer)

SKYRiX Core Libraries (skyrix-core)
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The SKYRiX Core libraries (skyrix-core) contain:
- various Foundation extensions
- a java.io like stream and socket library
- classes for processing MIME entities
- a full IMAP4 implementation
- prototypical POP3 and SMTP processors
- an Objective-C wrapper for LDAP directory services
- classes for iCalendar/vCard objects

SKYRiX Application Server (SOPE)
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The SKYRiX SOPE package is a framework for developing web applications and 
services. The name "SOPE" (SKYRiX Object Publishing Environment) is 
inspired by ZOPE ;-)

It provides
- template rendering engine, lots of dynamic elements
- HTTP client/server
- XML-RPC client
- WebDAV server framework
- session management
- scripting extensions for Foundation, JavaScript bridge
- DOM tree rendering library