ANN: hop-1.9.1
Manuel Serrano
higher-order language for programming interactive web applications
such as web agendas, web galleries, music players, etc. Hop can be
viewed as a replacement for traditional graphical toolkits. HOP is
implemented as a Web broker, i.e., a Web server that may act
indifferently as a regular Web server or Web proxy.
HOP features:
* a versatile Web server supporting HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1,
* an optimizing native code compiler for server code,
* an on-the-fly Javascript compiler for client code,
* an extensive set of widgets for programming fancy and portable
Web GUIs,
* a native multimedia support for enabling ubiquitous Web multimedia
applications.
* fast WebDAV level 1 support,
* an extensive set of libraries for the mail, calendars, databases,
Web technologies, ...
HOP is available at:
The release 1.9.1 is a minor release. It fixes glitches of the version
1.9.0 and delivers a new pre-installed weblet, HzBuilder, that imlements
a Web assistant for building simple Hop programs.
Announce of previous Hop release (1.9.0):
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The release 1.9.0 is a major release. It highlights are:
* new linguistic forms (e.g., "comet" server events).
* new APIs (e.g., multimedia, cryptography, ...).
* new implementations (e.g., new fast Web server scheduling,
new support for keep-alive connections, new compilation
techniques, ...).
Announce of previous Hop release (1.8.6):
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The release 1.8.6 is a minor release that fixes minor installation bugs.
* Minor bug fixes.
Announce of previous Hop release (1.8.5):
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The release 1.8.5 is a minor release that fixes minor installation bugs.
* It mostly contains fixes that enable packaging Hop is standard
Linux distributions.
Announce of previous Hop release (1.8.4):
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The release 1.8.4 is a minor release that fixes two important problems:
1- Hz timeout was expressed in micro-seconds instead of
milli-seconds. Hence, synchronizations and installations where
frequently failing because of timeouts.
2 Server events response text was not correct (although the
value of server events was).
It also adds a new feature to WEBLETS (the weblet in charge of making
weblets easily available on Web) which is now able to automatically generate
web pages.
Announce of previous Hop release (1.8.3):
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The release 1.8.3 is a minor release. It mostly fixes small glitches
such as:
* Eliminate multiple file authentications.
* Bad support of inlined resources.
* Broken proxy error messages.
* ...
It also adds a new feature to WEBLETS (the weblet in charge of making
weblets easily available on Web) which is now able to automatically generate
web pages.
Announce of previous Hop release (1.8.0):
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1- A new packaging system (Hz) that allows end users to
run and install Hop programs with a single click.
2- Support for MathML (with an extension that allows users to use
TeX syntax).
3- Support for SVG (with an extension that allows users to inline
SVG external images inside Hop documents).
4- Pre-compiled JVM version is now fully compatible with the native
version.
Announce of previous Hop release (1.7.0):
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1- Fast WebDAV level 1 support.
2- Various new APIs (such as audio support).
3- Support for fast server events (server-to-client communications).
Announce of previous Hop release (1.6.0):
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1- Support for history and bookmarking.
2- MacOS X port (single-threaded).
Announce of previous Hop release (1.5.0):
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The version 1.5.0 improves the former version 1.4.0 in many directions.
The three major improvements are:
1- Support all major browsers (Firefox, Safari, IE7, ...).
2- Add new widgets.
3- Improved authentication mechanisms.