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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<document>
<properties>
<title>Turbine Features</title>
<author email="a@a.com">Turbine Documentation Team</author>
</properties>
<body>
<section name="Features">
<p>
This document is for bragging about all of Turbine's features and inherent
coolness. Turbine is well over 200 classes and contains a boat load of
features and API's. Many of these can also be used indepently of Turbine.
Almost all of the default implementations can be easily overridden with
your own implementations. Turbine also has extensive Javadoc documentation
for nearly all of the classes as well as in-code comments. At the risk
of sounding snooty <smile>, Turbine is by far the leader of complex
web application development tools. No other systems come close to being
as cleanly implemented and executed. It clearly has been developed by the
people who do web applications on a daily basis and have to constantly
solve the same problems over and over again.
</p>
<p>
<strong>All of these features have been made possible thanks to the over
20 developers (and growing all the time!) who have <a href="contributors.html">
contributed</a> to Turbine over the last 2+ years.</strong>
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Integration with template systems: Velocity, WebMacro, Cocoon,
FreeMarker, JSP, ECS</li>
<li>
Utility code for working with Velocity and WebMacro, such as a
SelectorBox class for building <select> boxes</li>
<li>
Single Entry Point Servlet model for optimal security and control</li>
<li>
Singleton based Database Connection Pool (JDBC) with built in support
for all of the major databases</li>
<li>
ParameterParsing for GET/POST/PATH_INFO</li>
<li>
Event based Action handling!</li>
<li>
Strict MVC guidelines implemented through many interfaces and abstract
classes as well as through the template systems.</li>
<li>
Integration with 5 Object-Relational tools: DatabaseMap/Peers, Village,
Town, OPaL, <a href="http://castor.exolab.org">Castor</a></li>
<li>
IDBroker that abstracts the autoinsert/sequence usage from the database</li>
<li>
DatabaseMap generation tool that will read a schema and generate the Java
classes for you</li>
<li>
Failsafe Job based scheduler system (ie: a Java based cron)</li>
<li>
GlobalCache (Singleton based system for caching data across servlets and
requests)</li>
<li>
DateSelector (utility for building the HTML for popup date menus)</li>
<li>
File Upload API</li>
<li>
Generic Services API for creating Singletons</li>
<li>
Castor Service Integration</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.xml-rpc.com/">XML-RPC</a> Service Integration</li>
<li>
Localization Services API</li>
<li>
JNDI Services API</li>
<li>
Visitor/Member API for managing users</li>
<li>
Temporary and Permanent storage/management for users session data</li>
<li>
ACL (Access Control List) based security system that uses Roles and
Permissions (and the database schemas)</li>
<li>
BrowserDetector class for determining which browser someone is using</li>
<li>
GenerateUniqueId class for getting a unique number (ie: for sessions)</li>
<li>
Logging to a file facility.</li>
<li>
Property file reader tools and a TurbineResources service to make it easy
to retrieve properties</li>
<li>
Integration with JavaMail to make sending email painless</li>
<li>
Integration with JavaMail and Velocity/WebMacro to allow you to send
processed Velocity templates as email!</li>
<li>
Built using Ant</li>
<li>
Initial application development WAR archive creation tool using Ant</li>
<li>
Works cleanly with Servlet API 2.0 and higher</li>
<li>
Works with JDK 1.2.x and higher - 100% Pure Java</li>
</ul>
</section>
</body>
</document>
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