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 <document>

  <properties>
   <title>Turbine</title>
   <author email="jon@latchkey.com">Jon S. Stevens</author>
  </properties>

  <body>

  <section name="What is Turbine?">

  <p>
     Turbine is a servlet based framework that allows experienced Java
     developers to quickly build secure web applications. Parts of
     Turbine can also be used independently of the web portion of Turbine
     as well. In other words, we strive to make portions of Turbine
     easily available for use in other applications.
  </p>

  <p>
     <strong>A web based application is an application where users use
     their favorite web browser in order to access secure business
     logic.</strong>
  </p>

  <p>
     A couple example web applications that can benefit from using this
     framework include e-commerce shopping cart
     systems, Yahoo style link conservatories and project / <a
     href="http://scarab.tigris.org/">bug/issue</a> tracking systems as
     well as cool XML integration applications like <a
     href="http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-1/">Jetspeed</a>.
  </p>

  <p>
     <strong>A platform for building applications, not just running
     them.</strong>
  </p>

  <p>
     Many commercial (and non-commercial!) software companies will
     attempt to sell you an "Application Server", but what few people
     realize is that it is only half of the battle to creating a web
     application. There is often quite a lot of code that your engineers
     end up re-inventing the wheel with or grabbing various packages from
     all over the net with various licenses that you may or may not agree
     to.
  </p>

  <p>
     The point of Turbine is to collect that code into one location and
     make it easy to create re-usable components (such as
     ParameterParsing, Database Connection Pools, Job Scheduling,
     GlobalCaches, integration with other tools such as Torque, Velocity,
     etc...) all under a <a href="/common/license.html">license</a>
     (Apache) that allows you to create useful websites for your
     customers without worrying about viral code. Turbine is not the end
     all answer, but it sure is a nice way to make your development life
     easier.
  </p>

  <p>
     This framework has an intended audience that is directed at web
     engineers, not necessarily the web designers. By using this
     framework, it is possible for the web engineers to build intuitive
     high level systems for the web designers to use, but the low level
     framework is strictly for web engineers. Turbine is not a web
     application server. It is a tool for building web applications. Your
     <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/">servlet engine</a> is your
     application server and the application that you develop using this
     framework is your web application.
  </p>

  <p>
     <strong>Integration with Velocity is well
     defined and makes doing applications using these tools painless for
     both the developers and the web designers!</strong>
  </p>

  <p>
     Turbine can be integrated with existing <a
     href="http://velocity.apache.org/engine/">Velocity</a>, <a
     href="http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/">Java Server Pages (JSP)</a>
     and <a href="http://cocoon.apache.org/">Cocoon</a> technologies by
     specially creating Screens that use Services to parse templates.
     Screens can also be created to read files from other websites as
     well as off disk. This makes it easy to have designers simply put
     the body of a page on disk and Turbine can serve these files when
     requested. All of this is described in more detail in the
     documentation section below.
  </p>

  <p>
     The reason why Turbine works so well is because it applies object oriented
     principles to the entire process of building a complex secure web application.
     We try to follow the
     <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-1999/jw-12-ssj-jspmvc.html">Model
     2 methodology</a> yet expand on it to encompass "View" technologies other
     than just JSP as well as more mature methodologies such as
     <a href="./howto/action-event-howto.html">Action
     Event</a> handling. Turbine is considered as Model 2 <strong>+ 1</strong>. :-) Please
     see the <a href="model2+1.html">discussion</a> of Model 2+1 for more information.
  </p>

  <p>
     This all sounds like a bunch of marketing talk, but in reality,
     Turbine has been developed by developers for developers. We are not
     trying to sell you something that does not really work, instead we
     are trying to solve (or do something about) the problems that our
     fellow developers keep having over and over again. Come be a part of
     the revolution!
  </p>

  </section>

 <section name="Where do I get releases?">

   <p>
     Please refer to the main
     <a href="http://turbine.apache.org/download.html">Turbine Download
     page</a>.
   </p>

 </section>

 <section name="How do I contribute, give feedback, fix bugs and so on?">

 <p>
 We really need and appreciate any contributions you can give. This
 includes documentation help, source code and feedback. Discussion
 about changes should come in the form of source code and/or very
 detailed and well thought out constructive feedback. The <a
 href="how-to-help.html">How To Help</a> document has details and hints
 how to get engaged with Turbine Development. We also have a <a
 href="todo.html">To Do</a> document that describes work to do with
 the current Turbine code.
 </p>

 <ul>
     <li>
         We have a <a href="http://turbine.apache.org/contact.html">Turbine mailing
         lists</a> for discussion.</li>
     <li>
         You can also access the <a href="scm-usage.html">Turbine SVN
         repository</a></li>
 </ul>

 </section>

  </body>
  </document>
	<?xml version="1.0"?>

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	Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
	or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
	distributed with this work for additional information
	regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
	to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
	"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
	with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

	http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

	Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
	software distributed under the License is distributed on an
	"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
	KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
	specific language governing permissions and limitations
	under the License.
	-->

	<document>

	<properties>
	<title>Turbine</title>
	<author email="jon@latchkey.com">Jon S. Stevens</author>
	</properties>

	<body>

	<section name="What is Turbine?">

	<p>
	Turbine is a servlet based framework that allows experienced Java
	developers to quickly build secure web applications. Parts of
	Turbine can also be used independently of the web portion of Turbine
	as well. In other words, we strive to make portions of Turbine
	easily available for use in other applications.
	</p>

	<p>
	<strong>A web based application is an application where users use
	their favorite web browser in order to access secure business
	logic.</strong>
	</p>

	<p>
	A couple example web applications that can benefit from using this
	framework include e-commerce shopping cart
	systems, Yahoo style link conservatories and project / <a
	href="http://scarab.tigris.org/">bug/issue</a> tracking systems as
	well as cool XML integration applications like <a
	href="http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-1/">Jetspeed</a>.
	</p>

	<p>
	<strong>A platform for building applications, not just running
	them.</strong>
	</p>

	<p>
	Many commercial (and non-commercial!) software companies will
	attempt to sell you an "Application Server", but what few people
	realize is that it is only half of the battle to creating a web
	application. There is often quite a lot of code that your engineers
	end up re-inventing the wheel with or grabbing various packages from
	all over the net with various licenses that you may or may not agree
	to.
	</p>

	<p>
	The point of Turbine is to collect that code into one location and
	make it easy to create re-usable components (such as
	ParameterParsing, Database Connection Pools, Job Scheduling,
	GlobalCaches, integration with other tools such as Torque, Velocity,
	etc...) all under a <a href="/common/license.html">license</a>
	(Apache) that allows you to create useful websites for your
	customers without worrying about viral code. Turbine is not the end
	all answer, but it sure is a nice way to make your development life
	easier.
	</p>

	<p>
	This framework has an intended audience that is directed at web
	engineers, not necessarily the web designers. By using this
	framework, it is possible for the web engineers to build intuitive
	high level systems for the web designers to use, but the low level
	framework is strictly for web engineers. Turbine is not a web
	application server. It is a tool for building web applications. Your
	<a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/">servlet engine</a> is your
	application server and the application that you develop using this
	framework is your web application.
	</p>

	<p>
	<strong>Integration with Velocity is well
	defined and makes doing applications using these tools painless for
	both the developers and the web designers!</strong>
	</p>

	<p>
	Turbine can be integrated with existing <a
	href="http://velocity.apache.org/engine/">Velocity</a>, <a
	href="http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/">Java Server Pages (JSP)</a>
	and <a href="http://cocoon.apache.org/">Cocoon</a> technologies by
	specially creating Screens that use Services to parse templates.
	Screens can also be created to read files from other websites as
	well as off disk. This makes it easy to have designers simply put
	the body of a page on disk and Turbine can serve these files when
	requested. All of this is described in more detail in the
	documentation section below.
	</p>

	<p>
	The reason why Turbine works so well is because it applies object oriented
	principles to the entire process of building a complex secure web application.
	We try to follow the
	<a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-1999/jw-12-ssj-jspmvc.html">Model
	2 methodology</a> yet expand on it to encompass "View" technologies other
	than just JSP as well as more mature methodologies such as
	<a href="./howto/action-event-howto.html">Action
	Event</a> handling. Turbine is considered as Model 2 <strong>+ 1</strong>. :-) Please
	see the <a href="model2+1.html">discussion</a> of Model 2+1 for more information.
	</p>

	<p>
	This all sounds like a bunch of marketing talk, but in reality,
	Turbine has been developed by developers for developers. We are not
	trying to sell you something that does not really work, instead we
	are trying to solve (or do something about) the problems that our
	fellow developers keep having over and over again. Come be a part of
	the revolution!
	</p>

	</section>

	<section name="Where do I get releases?">

	<p>
	Please refer to the main
	<a href="http://turbine.apache.org/download.html">Turbine Download
	page</a>.
	</p>

	</section>

	<section name="How do I contribute, give feedback, fix bugs and so on?">

	<p>
	We really need and appreciate any contributions you can give. This
	includes documentation help, source code and feedback. Discussion
	about changes should come in the form of source code and/or very
	detailed and well thought out constructive feedback. The <a
	href="how-to-help.html">How To Help</a> document has details and hints
	how to get engaged with Turbine Development. We also have a <a
	href="todo.html">To Do</a> document that describes work to do with
	the current Turbine code.
	</p>

	<ul>
	<li>
	We have a <a href="http://turbine.apache.org/contact.html">Turbine mailing
	lists</a> for discussion.</li>
	<li>
	You can also access the <a href="scm-usage.html">Turbine SVN
	repository</a></li>
	</ul>

	</section>

	</body>
	</document>