web/wdoc/about_en.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@logilab.fr>
Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:26:13 +0200
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[client-connection] add an auto-close property for ClientConnection The next commit introduce a connect function that open a new Session and return an associated ClientConnection. The Session should not be used by anything else than the created ClientConnection, so we want to close it at the same time than the ClientConnection. The implementation in this changeset is simplistic. We probably want to move this notion in the session itself. This be improved once we have server side Connection
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About this site
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===============
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This web application is based on the CubicWeb knowledge management system
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from Logilab_. CubicWeb is made of an object database and a web
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framework. It allows to develop an application by defining a set of
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entities and their relationships, plus a set of views that present the
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data selected from the object database using a specific query language.
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This application has a precise schema_ and can be considered an
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example of a semantic web database, as it can export the data to XML
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and others formats and is not limited to publishing HTML.
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Supported formats: |microformats|_ - JSON_ - |rss|_ - |dublincore|_
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.. |microformats| image:: /data/microformats-button.png
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.. _microformats: http://microformats.org
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.. _JSON: http://www.json.org/
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.. |rss| image:: /data/rss-button.png
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.. _rss: http://www.rssboard.org
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.. |dublincore| image:: /data/dublincore-button.png
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.. _dublincore: http://dublincore.org
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.. _Logilab: http://www.logilab.fr/
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.. _schema: schema