The Casbah Project: APIs and Reference Manual

Developer's Release 1

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The Casbah Project is is developing a free software framework for application devleopment. The Casbah Project is made up of talented and developers from all over the globe who believe that free software is the best software in the world.

Table of Contents

I. Casbah: An Introduction

Introduction to Casbah

A Gentle Introduction to The Casbah Project
Casbah Design Goals

Casbah Architecture Overview

Introduction
Casbah Components
Cairo Architecture
Cairo Black Box
Distributed Cairo

II. Casbah Core APIs

The Casbah Project: Casbah Datatypes

Introduction
Primitive Datatypes
Language Mappings
MIME and MIME-like Type Identifiers

The Casbah Project: NatrounAPI

Introduction
The NatrounAPI
Required Natroun Methods
Optional Natroun Methods
Object Streams
Implementation Considerations
Sample Natroun Java Code
Security Considerations

The Casbah Project: Qibla API

Introduction
QiblaDriver
The QiblaConnection Class
Security Considerations
Implementation Details

The Casbah Project: Oriel API

Introduction
Oriel Driver

The Casbah Project: Shariff API

Introduction
ShariffModule
ShariffRealm

III. Cairo Public Interface

Cairo Public Interface (CairoAdapter)

Introduction
Cairo Public Interface Methods
Cairo Public Interface Static Methods
Cairo Public Interface Instance Methods

Casbah Virtual Namespace

Introduction
Physical Layer
Logical Layer
Overlay Mounts
Property Sets
Templates
Path Conventions

The Casbah Access Model

Introduction
Casbah Access Model: A Prototype-based Access and Object Model
Frames
Slots

IV. Lightweight Distributed Objects

Lightweight Distributed Objects Overview

Introduction
Examples

Self-Describing Binary Data Representation for LDO (LDO-Binary)

Status of this Document
Introduction
Data Model
Format
Sanity Checking
Security Considerations
References
Author's Address
Changes from Previous Versions

LDO XML Object Serialization Format

Introduction
Format

Lightweight Distributed Objects (LDO): Request Encoding as Objects

Introduction
Defintions
Request Encoding as Objects Proxies
Interfaces
Operations
Required Operations
Optional Operations
Security Considerations

V. Casbah Developer's Guide

Cardamom: Casbah Multi-Language Support in Java

Introduction
Task List
Notes
Security Considerations

VI. The Casbah Project: Technical Addenda

The Casbah Project: Security in Casbah

ACL Basics
Access Modes

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