jToolkit

Description

jToolkit is a Python web application framework built on modpython and Apache. It can also run in standalone mode using its own builtin HTTP server.

It is aimed at dynamically generated pages rather than mostly-static pages (for which there are templating solutions). Pages can be produced using a variety of widgets or a new templating system. It handles sessions and database connections.

jToolkit has already been deployed in working systems in Linux and in Windows.

The source code is licensed under the GPL license.

We request that for any contributions to jToolkit, joint copyright is assigned to St James Software. This enables us to keep the public GPL version in sync with our internal version, which we use for commercial projects. If there are any questions about this, please discuss on any of the mailing lists. (Note that if you want to, you can always create your own version of jToolkit without returning the contributions to this project).

Status

jToolkit is now used for Pootle.

jToolkit source code is no longer maintained in sourceforge CVS. Snapshots can be downloaded here.

Features

Current features include:

• login/logout and user sessions (planned to be integrated with modpython 3.1 sessions if that is feasible)
• database independence using a wrapper around the Python DB-API 2.0
• localization using an extension of the gettext modules (for concurrent use of different languages)
• widget objects of various levels of complexity, ranging from simple html widgets to table layouts, etc

Documentation

Documentation available:

• Tutorial

News

2006-06-01: jToolkit 0.7.8 released.

2006-04-26: jToolkit 0.7.7 released.

2006-03-23: jToolkit 0.7.6 released.

2006-03-23: jToolkit 0.7.6 released.

2006-03-10: jToolkit 0.7.5 released.

2005-07-01: jToolkit 0.7 released.

2005-06-28: jToolkit 0.6.6 released.

2005-06-27: jToolkit 0.6.5 released.

2005-06-24: jToolkit 0.6.4 released. status added.

2003-09-29: jToolkit 0.1 released

2003-08-29: Project website up and running

2003-08-25: Project created and source imported

Portability

jToolkit has been used successfully on:

• python versions: Python 2.3, 2.4
• Apache versions: Apache 2.0.47+
• mod_python versions: mod_python 3.1.3
• operating systems: Linux, Windows 2000, Windows XP
• databases: Oracle 8.0.5, Oracle 8i, MSDE 7.0, Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, Microsoft Access 2000, PostGres, MySQL, sqlite

If you have any problems on a different system, or get jToolkit working, please let us know

Related projects

• Python
• mod_python
• Apache

Sourceforge Links

jToolkit is hosted by SourceForge. Here are the various relevant pages...

• jToolkit Home Page (this page)
• Project Page
• CVS Access instructions
• Browse CVS Repository
• Project Downloads

Mailing Lists

There are three mailing lists for jToolkit, as well as one which notifies of CVS commits. Please use either Users list for any questions, and the Developers list if you are helping to develop jToolkit.

• Low-volume Announcements (or see the archives)
• Users Mailing List (or see the archives)
• Developers Mailing List (or see the archives)
• CVS commits List

Contributors

jToolkit was created by David Fraser, Nick Hurley and Shayan Raghavjee of St James Software.

Any additional contributions are welcome, and will be listed here. Please use the mailing lists or contact the project admin through the project page.