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Albatross is a small and flexible toolkit for developing highly stateful web
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applications. The toolkit provides the following:
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* Browser based sessions via automatically generated hidden form fields
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(cryptographically signed to ensure integrity).
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* Server side sessions via a session server or file based session store.
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* Powerful and extensible templating system which promotes separation of
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presentation and implementation for improved program maintainability.
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* Pagination of sequences and tree browsing are handled implicitly in the
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templating system.
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* Macros allow repeated HTML and special effects HTML to be defined in one
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location.
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* Lookup tables translate internal program values to arbitrary template code.
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* Applications can be deployed as either CGI programs or as mod_python module
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with minor changes to program mainline. Custom deployment can be achieved
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by developing your own Request class.
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* Highly modular application framework which is flexible and extensible which
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allows many different application construction models. Eight Application
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classes are provided while many more are possible.
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* Comprehensive documentation including many installable samples.
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A primary design goal of Albatross is that it be small and easy to use and
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extend. Most of the toolkit is constructed from a collection of mixin classes.
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You are encouraged to look at the code and to think of new ways to combine the
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Albatross mixin classes with your own classes.
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