Reptile: P2P Content Syndication

Let me just quote, because I can't pack the buzzwords that tightly: "The OpenPrivacy project would like the announce the creation and initial release (0.0.1) of Reptile. Reptile is an Open Source/Free Software, Peer-to-Peer, content syndication engine (think RSS/OCS), which is driven by Java/XML and is privacy protection/Reputation enabled. Reptile nodes can publish to each other (everything is driven by XML based subscriptions) and provides a decentralized authentication model based on public/private key crypto (and Reputation)." Interesting stuff.

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[JanneM]

The OpenPrivacy project would like the announce the creation and initial release (0.0.1) of Reptile . Reptile is an Open Source/Free Software, Peer-to-Peer, content syndication engine (think RSS/OCS), which is driven by Java/XML and is privacy protection/Reputation enabled. Reptile nodes can publish to each other (everything is driven by XML based subscriptions) and provides a decentralized authentication model based on public/private key crypto (and Reputation).

To paraphrase a classic line:

"Your Honour, that sentence should be taken out and shot."

/Janne

0.0.1?

[Anonymous Coward]

so basically they have completed the name...which will probably be changed in 0.0.2

Interesting considering the previous .NET article

[jhol]

I read a number of posts in the "Petreley on Ximian and Mono" article, and the fears that people have on Microsoft's Passport service.

This is exactly the initiative that is needed, a Peer-to-Peer authentication service that no major company has exclusive rights on. I applaud the initiative and hope it turns out well.

OpenPrivacy

[DeepDarkSky]

Quite an oxymoron

Re:No kidding:

[bricriu]

This got modded up? That's like me saying "Regular expression? What the hell's that? I'm not a Perl h4X0r...." Ugh. Anyway:

• Content comes from where it always comes from: people writing it in XML, or writing it in Word docs & having it converted to XML
• Where does it get stored? Any ol' file system will do.
• Where does the presentation come from? It's XML -- who cares? XSL, or the Xerxes Java parser on top of some HTML templates (as in Dynamo)... the Tomcat Struts engine handles XML nicely. It's XML. Just content. No presentation. That's the point.
• Where does that get stored? In your html docs directory. (these are all based on my experiences with teh ATG Dynamo engine... anyone who's worked with WebSphere or something else may have a diff't answer)

As to where the engine gets stored, i'm not sure I can say... probabaly a personal preference thing. Yes, I can understand if buzzwords get you down, but don't go asking questions that anyone who's had experience working with XML-based content can answer as if they were mysteries that had puzzled the sages.