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A little history...

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*CubicWeb* is a semantic web application framework that Logilab_ started

developing in 2001 as an offspring of its Narval_ research project. *CubicWeb*

is written in Python and includes a data server and a web engine.

Its data server publishes data federated from different sources like SQL

databases, LDAP directories and versioning systems (such as subversion or

mercurial).

Its web engine was designed to let the final user control what content to select

and how to display it. It allows one to browse the federated data sources and

display the results with the rendering that best fits the context. This

flexibility of the user interface gives back to the user some capabilities

usually only accessible to application developers.

*CubicWeb* has been developed by Logilab_ and used in-house for many years

before it was first installed for its clients in 2006 as version 2.

In 2008, *CubicWeb* version 3 became downloadable for free under the terms of

the LGPL license. Its community is now steadily growing as changes can occur

rapidly thanks to the time and energy originally put in the design of the

framework.

.. _Narval: http://www.logilab.org/project/narval

.. _Logilab: http://www.logilab.fr/