[cl-prevalence-cvs] CVS update: public_html/index.html

[Sven Van Caekenberghe]

Update of /project/cl-prevalence/cvsroot/public_html
In directory common-lisp.net:/tmp/cvs-serv10850

Modified Files:
	index.html 
Log Message:
added some personal info
as well as a reference to a paper

Date: Thu Jul  8 12:59:14 2004
Author: scaekenberghe

Index: public_html/index.html
diff -u public_html/index.html:1.5 public_html/index.html:1.6
--- public_html/index.html:1.5	Thu Jun 24 00:23:40 2004
+++ public_html/index.html	Thu Jul  8 12:59:14 2004
@@ -13,10 +13,23 @@
     <h1>CL-PREVALENCE</h1>
   </div>
 
-  <p>CL-PREVALENCE is an implementation of <a href="http://www.prevayler.org">Object Prevalence</a> for Common Lisp.</p>
+  <p>
+    CL-PREVALENCE is an implementation of <a href="http://www.prevayler.org">Object Prevalence</a> for Common Lisp.
+    It was written by and is being maintained by <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/svc">Sven Van Caekenberghe</a>.
+    CL-PREVALENCE is using <a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/s-xml">S-XML</a> for the XML serialization 
+    protocol (there is also a more Lisp-like s-expression-based serialization protocol).
+  </p>
 
 <p>
-  Object Prevalence is a simple but interesting concept first proposed by Klaus Wuestefeld in 2001. IBM developerWorks has a reasonable <a href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-objprev/">Introduction to Object Prevalence</a> article. The main Java implementation is called <a href="http://www.prevayler.org">Prevayler</a>, with a (chaotic) wiki site with lots of information and discussions. Basically, the idea is this:
+  Object Prevalence is a simple but interesting concept first proposed by Klaus Wuestefeld in 2001. 
+  IBM developerWorks has a reasonable 
+  <a href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-objprev/">Introduction to Object Prevalence</a> article. 
+  The main Java implementation is called <a href="http://www.prevayler.org">Prevayler</a>, 
+  with a (chaotic) wiki site with lots of information and discussions. 
+  The following academic paper seems to describe the most essential features of Object Prevalence, without naming it as such:
+  <a href="http://birrell.org/andrew/papers/024-DatabasesPaper.pdf">A Simple and Efficient Implementation for Small Databases</a>
+  by Birrell, Jones, and Wobber [1987].  
+  Basically, the idea is this:
 </p>
 <ul>
   <li>Most databases are only a couple of hundreds of megabytes big, often even less.</li>
@@ -53,7 +66,8 @@
 
 <p>
   You can download the LLGPL source code and documentation as <a href="cl-prevalence.tgz">cl-prevalence.tgz</a> 
-  (signature: <a href="cl-prevalence.tgz.asc">cl-prevalence.tgz.asc</a>) 
+  (signature: <a href="cl-prevalence.tgz.asc">cl-prevalence.tgz.asc</a> for which the public key can be found 
+  in the <a href="http://common-lisp.net/keyring.asc">common-lisp.net keyring</a>) 
   (build and/or install with ASDF). 
   There is also <a href="http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?cvsroot=cl-prevalence">CVS</a> access.
 </p>
@@ -81,7 +95,7 @@
   <li><a href="http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/cl-prevalence-announce">CL-PREVALENCE-ANNOUNCE mailing list info</a></li>
 </ul>
 
-  <p>CVS version $Id: index.html,v 1.5 2004/06/24 07:23:40 scaekenberghe Exp $</p>
+  <p>CVS version $Id: index.html,v 1.6 2004/07/08 19:59:14 scaekenberghe Exp $</p>
 
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