Clearing Framework From: Pelle Braendgaard <pelle@neubia.com> To: dgcchat@lists.goldmoney.com Cc: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>, DGCChat <dgcchat@lists.goldmoney.com>, xmlx <xml-api@intertrader.com> Date: 19 Sep 2002 00:05:39 -0500 I'm happy to announce the first public release of NeuDist NeuDist is an Open Source Software framework for building applications for the Neubia Distributed Clearing Platform. This release contains early java libraries and documentation that would primarily be of interest to developers. Talking about documentation, it is still a bit slim and mainly oriented towards people with experience in Java/XML development. There are currently no sample applications, but they will be available in the next release. The framework currently contains the following: - Classes for creating "Named Objects", which are authenticated using digital signatures within a hierarchy. - Storage framework for "Named Objects". - Simple XML-Signature implementation (Almost certainly not yet interoperable with other implementations) - Simple SOAP client - Simple Servlet API for handling SOAP requests based on "Named Objects". - Current types of "Named Objects" include: NameSpace objects -- for maintaining the NameSpace Authentication Framework AuthenticationTickets -- for doing web site authentication using digital signatures. Next major release is scheduled to contain: - Core: hard coded root public key, for authenticating top level NameSpaces - Signing Services: Implementation of web based signing services End user hosted signing service - Example User Authentication Application - Example Payment System based on NeuDist I will be expanding the documentation over the next few weeks. This will cover not only more indepth technical documentation, but also higher level documentation about the business side of things. Read more about NeuDist or download our early version at http://neudist.org I would love to hear your questions and suggestions. To discuss it further please join neudist-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net You can join it at: http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/neudist-discuss Regards Pelle -- Antilles Software Ventures SA http://neubia.com/asv My Web Log Live and Direct from Panama http://talk.org Views of an EconoFist http://econofist.com subscribe: send blank email to dgcchat-join@lists.goldmoney.com unsubscribe: send blank email to dgcchat-leave@lists.goldmoney.com digest: send an email to dgcchat-request@lists.goldmoney.com with "set yourname@yourdomain.com digest=on" in the message body --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'