the elj project

The elj project (sourceforge) is an open source project to facilitate the development of open-source libraries and applications for SmartEiffel and ISE Eiffel developers. The libraries in most cases are available for seamless multiplatform usage (ie win32 and Linux/Unix). At present we have a number of Eiffel-based libraries and tools developed which are released under the open source Eiffel Forum Licence v2 (Note: this licence has been approved by the gnu project as a Free Software license which is compatible with the GNU GPL (*)) In general we split a C interface library into two parts: firstly, the direct Eiffel interface to existing C API's. higher level Eiffel library interfaces to the direct Eiffel interfaces. This approach has worked well for the project and has allowed us to build our higher level libraries using Eiffel, rather than C, which has been a common approach in the past. We have the following libraries under development: wxEiffel interface - A direct Eiffel interface to the wxWindows Library (version 2.4.1). Database Interfaces .. elj-Firebird - an interface to the Firebird database. elj-Berkeley DB (SleepyCat) - an interface to the SleepyCat database. elj-MySQL - an interface to the MySQL database. elj-PostgreSQL - an interface to the PostgreSQL elj-btrieve - a low-level interface for the brave!! (a management tool is underconstruction - see pvsw) elj-sqlite - an interface to the sqlite database. elj-Lua interface to Lua (v 5.0) embeddable scripting language .. elj-libxml interface to libxml the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project. Compression Libraries: zlib - an interface to the zlib compression library. bzip2/bzlib - an interface to the bzip2/bzlib compression library. elj Reg Exp (ePCRE) - an Eiffel version of the PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) C library. Perlish: Perl for Eifferler's !! elj-win32api interface - A direct SmallEiffel interface to the win32 api. You will find our sourceforge project site here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/elj/ We have a number mailings lists associated with the project. You can direct your messages to either of the following: elj-devel mailing list elj-users mailing list elj-commits mailing list

elj Project Quick Links Project Status/Warning (25 July 2003) Official Downloads: 0.7 Release (20 Jun 03) (announce getting started docs) Docs: Tutorial (pdf), Style (pdf) Syntax etl3 wxEiffel: wxWindows (ver:2.4.1) (cvs, wxWindows, lists: users dev, news *, wx-c) Common Classes (cvs) elj-db: elj database interface elj FireBird interface (cvs, lists) elj sqlite (cvs, home, list, news, SQL) elj SleepyCat interface (cvs, news) elj mysql interface) (cvs) elj Postgres interface (cvs, news) elj btrieve (cvs news) compression: zlib bzip2/bzlib elj Lua interface (cvs home list news) elj libxml2 interface (cvs eg list news) os: elj win32api interface Related/Interesting Eiffel Struggle 2003 (NICE cetus-links ceug) ewg (Eiffel<->C) (home cvs news) ePDF (PDF) (home cvs news) yaesockets (home cvs news) nenie Eiffel (xml,networking,snmp,DES,..) - (homepage cvs) Goanna (web services) - (cvs) mico/E (open source Eiffel CORBA services ) ePosix: posix interface (news) EiffelOpenGL (sf cvs) elj-girls: our first application diuturnal: multiplayer turn-based strategy game (home cvs) elj Perlish -(cvs examples Perl) elj Reg Exp -(cvs PCRE) elj Dependency Links SmartEiffel (GNU Eiffel Compiler FAQ) - (beta bugs list news *) ISE Eiffel (downloads) - (list cle faqs) GOBO Project (lists: dev user commits cvs geant * gexace) elj Mailing List: (elj-devel elj-users elj-commits)