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Global Village Consulting Inc. Releases GVC WebObjects Frameworks as Open Source Vancouver, BC, October 11, 2005 – Global Village Consulting (GVC) has released the source code for GVC WebObjects Frameworks under the Educational Community License. Source code and binary distributions for GVC WebObjects Frameworks are available at SourceForge.net as part of GVC.SiteMaker (http://prdownloads.sourceforget.net/gvcsitemaker/GVCOpenSourceFrameworksCode_3.6.tar.gz?download) WebObjects is a Java Web application server by Apple with a range of tools and frameworks to develop and deploy Web Applications and Web services. Its hallmark features are its deep object-orientation, powerful data connectivity and rapid prototyping tools. GVC WebObjects Frameworks extend WebObjects making it even more powerful and handling many common tasks. GVC WebObjects Frameworks evolved from projects implemented by GVC for over 10 years. One of the most recent projects that use these frameworks is GVC.SiteMaker, which is a web application that allows non-technical users to create highly customized websites and web databases. The following are some of the main frameworks included in this release: • GVCEOFExtensions – Provides loads of Enterprise Objects Frameworks (EOF) additions and custom qualifiers. • GVCEOFValidation – Provides enhancements to standard EOF validation, including code-free, customizable, localizable validation messages and more extensive validation. • GVCFoundation – Contains Foundation extensions such as Boolean, Date, BigDecimal, String, NSArray. • GVCEOPrototypes – Contains standard set of Enterprise Objects (EO) prototypes that can be used for multiple frameworks and WebObjects applications. It currently supports prototypes for DB2, FrontBase, JDBC, MySQL and Oracle databases. • GVCGenericObjects – Contains classes designed for easy lookup, localization and archival of objects. • GVCSecurity – Contains classes that provide security or different access rights for users or groups in a WebObject’s application. • GVCVirtualTables – Contains classes that provide a virtual representation of database tables which can be accessed via Key Value Coding (KVC). • GVCKerberos – Contains a simple wrapper class around some of the functionality in the WedgeTail JSCI Kerberos classes. It implements a very simple Kerberos authentication of a user ID and password. • GVCMail – Contains convenience classes for sending email messages and support for fault tolerant sending of bulk messages. • GVCWOExtensions – Contains extensions to WOApplication, WOComponent, WODirectAction, WOSession and other AppServer classes. • GVCJNDIAdditions – Extends the JNDI adaptor to support secure communication with an LDAP server. Transport Layer Security (TLS) provides a mechanism for ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of the transferred data. About Global Village Consulting, Inc: Since 1995, Global Village Consulting Inc. (GVC), located in Vancouver, BC, Canada, is an enterprise application development and consulting company delivering efficient and cost effective business solutions. Global Village Consulting's focus is to provide superior application consulting and development solutions, turnkey implementation and software solutions that meet with the specific needs or our clients. In addition to developing and marketing GVC.SiteMaker and various other applications, Global Village Consulting's primary service is to provide back-end / mid-tier project evaluation, development, implementation and hosting services to help clients reach their internet and e-business goals.

Global Village Consulting Inc. Releases GVC WebObjects Frameworks as Open Source

Vancouver, BC, October 11, 2005 – Global Village Consulting (GVC) has released the source code for GVC WebObjects Frameworks under the Educational Community License. Source code and binary distributions for GVC WebObjects Frameworks are available at SourceForge.net as part of GVC.SiteMaker (http://prdownloads.sourceforget.net/gvcsitemaker/GVCOpenSourceFrameworksCode_3.6.tar.gz?download)

WebObjects is a Java Web application server by Apple with a range of tools and frameworks to develop and deploy Web Applications and Web services. Its hallmark features are its deep object-orientation, powerful data connectivity and rapid prototyping tools. GVC WebObjects Frameworks extend WebObjects making it even more powerful and handling many common tasks.

GVC WebObjects Frameworks evolved from projects implemented by GVC for over 10 years. One of the most recent projects that use these frameworks is GVC.SiteMaker, which is a web application that allows non-technical users to create highly customized websites and web databases.

The following are some of the main frameworks included in this release:

• GVCEOFExtensions – Provides loads of Enterprise Objects Frameworks (EOF) additions and custom qualifiers.

• GVCEOFValidation – Provides enhancements to standard EOF validation, including code-free, customizable, localizable validation messages and more extensive validation.

• GVCFoundation – Contains Foundation extensions such as Boolean, Date, BigDecimal, String, NSArray.

• GVCEOPrototypes – Contains standard set of Enterprise Objects (EO) prototypes that can be used for multiple frameworks and WebObjects applications. It currently supports prototypes for DB2, FrontBase, JDBC, MySQL and Oracle databases.

• GVCGenericObjects – Contains classes designed for easy lookup, localization and archival of objects.

• GVCSecurity – Contains classes that provide security or different access rights for users or groups in a WebObject’s application.

• GVCVirtualTables – Contains classes that provide a virtual representation of database tables which can be accessed via Key Value Coding (KVC).

• GVCKerberos – Contains a simple wrapper class around some of the functionality in the WedgeTail JSCI Kerberos classes. It implements a very simple Kerberos authentication of a user ID and password.

• GVCMail – Contains convenience classes for sending email messages and support for fault tolerant sending of bulk messages.

• GVCWOExtensions – Contains extensions to WOApplication, WOComponent, WODirectAction, WOSession and other AppServer classes.

• GVCJNDIAdditions – Extends the JNDI adaptor to support secure communication with an LDAP server. Transport Layer Security (TLS) provides a mechanism for ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of the transferred data.

About Global Village Consulting, Inc: Since 1995, Global Village Consulting Inc. (GVC), located in Vancouver, BC, Canada, is an enterprise application development and consulting company delivering efficient and cost effective business solutions.

Global Village Consulting's focus is to provide superior application consulting and development solutions, turnkey implementation and software solutions that meet with the specific needs or our clients. In addition to developing and marketing GVC.SiteMaker and various other applications, Global Village Consulting's primary service is to provide back-end / mid-tier project evaluation, development, implementation and hosting services to help clients reach their internet and e-business goals.