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| <title>Turbine Features</title> |
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| <body> |
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| <section name="Features"> |
| |
| <p> |
| This document is for bragging about all of Turbine's features and inherent |
| coolness. Turbine is well over 200 classes and contains a boat load of |
| features and API's. Many of these can also be used indepently of Turbine. |
| Almost all of the default implementations can be easily overridden with |
| your own implementations. Turbine also has extensive Javadoc documentation |
| for nearly all of the classes as well as in-code comments. At the risk |
| of sounding snooty <smile>, Turbine is by far the leader of complex |
| web application development tools. No other systems come close to being |
| as cleanly implemented and executed. It clearly has been developed by the |
| people who do web applications on a daily basis and have to constantly |
| solve the same problems over and over again. |
| </p> |
| |
| <p> |
| <strong>All of these features have been made possible thanks to the over |
| 30 developers (and growing all the time!) who have <a href="team-list.html"> |
| contributed</a> to Turbine over the last 2+ years.</strong> |
| </p> |
| |
| <ul> |
| <li> |
| Integration with template systems: Velocity, JSP |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| Utility code for working with Velocity, such as a |
| SelectorBox class for building <code>select</code> boxes</li> |
| <li> |
| Single Entry Point Servlet model for optimal security and control</li> |
| <li> |
| ParameterParsing for GET/POST/PATH_INFO</li> |
| <li> |
| Event based Action handling!</li> |
| <li> |
| Strict MVC guidelines implemented through many interfaces and abstract |
| classes as well as through the template systems.</li> |
| <li> |
| Object-Relational tools: DatabaseMap/Peers, Village.</li> |
| <li> |
| IDBroker that abstracts the autoinsert/sequence usage from the database</li> |
| <li> |
| Failsafe Job based scheduler system (ie: a Java based cron)</li> |
| <li> |
| GlobalCache (Singleton based system for caching data across servlets and |
| requests)</li> |
| <li> |
| DateSelector (utility for building the HTML for popup date menus)</li> |
| <li> |
| File Upload API</li> |
| <li> |
| Generic Services API for creating Singletons</li> |
| <li> |
| <a href="http://www.xml-rpc.com/">XML-RPC</a> Service Integration</li> |
| <li> |
| Localization Services API</li> |
| <li> |
| JNDI Services API</li> |
| <li> |
| Visitor/Member API for managing users</li> |
| <li> |
| Temporary and Permanent storage/management for users session data</li> |
| <li> |
| ACL (Access Control List) based security system that uses Roles and |
| Permissions (and the database schemas)</li> |
| <li> |
| BrowserDetector class for determining which browser someone is using</li> |
| <li> |
| GenerateUniqueId class for getting a unique number (ie: for sessions)</li> |
| <li> |
| Logging via commons-logging, backed by Log4j. |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| A centralized configuration using commons-configuration to make it easy |
| to retrieve properties. |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| Properties can be stored in JNDI, XML, or .properties files! Properties can |
| override each other. |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| Integration with JavaMail to make sending email painless</li> |
| <li> |
| Integration with JavaMail and Velocity to allow you to send |
| processed Velocity templates as email!</li> |
| <li> |
| Built using Maven</li> |
| <li> |
| Initial application development WAR archive creation tool using Ant</li> |
| <li> |
| Turbine Servlet works cleanly with Servlet API 2.1 and higher</li> |
| <li> |
| Works with JDK 1.2.x and higher - 100% Pure Java</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| </section> |
| |
| </body> |
| </document> |
