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.. -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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The development team is pleased to announce the 3.0.0 release of CubicWeb, also
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know as ShowTime.
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What is CubicWeb?
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With CubicWeb, the Semantic Web is a construction game!
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CubicWeb_ is a semantic web application framework, licensed under the LGPL, that
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empowers developers to efficiently build web applications by reusing components
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(called cubes) and following the well known object-oriented design principles.
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Its main features are:
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    * an engine driven by the explicit data model of the application,
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    * a query language named RQL similar to W3C’s SPARQL,
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    * a selection+view mechanism for semi-automatic XHTML/XML/JSON/text generation,
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    * a library of reusable components (data model and views) that fulfill common needs,
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    * the power and flexibility of the Python programming language,
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    * the reliability of SQL databases, LDAP directories, Subversion and Mercurial for storage backends.
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Being built since 2000 by an R&D project still going on today, supporting
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100,000s of daily visits at some production sites, CubicWeb is a proven end to
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end solution for semantic web application development that promotes quality,
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reusability and efficiency.
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The unbeliever will read the quick overview_ of CubicWeb.
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The hacker will join development at the forge_.
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The impatient will move right away to installation_ and set-up of a CubicWeb
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environment.
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.. _cubicweb: http://www.cubicweb.org/
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.. _overview: http://www.cubicweb.org/doc/en/A020-tutorial.en.html#overview
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.. _forge: http://www.cubicweb.org/project?vtitle=All%20cubicweb%20projects
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.. _installation: http://www.cubicweb.org/doc/en/C010-setup.en.html#miseenplaceenv
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Home page
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http://www.cubicweb.org/
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Download
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http://ftp.logilab.org/pub/cubicweb/
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Mailing list
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