In General
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| Q: |
What is FreeFrameWork? |
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FreeFrameWork is an open-source free set of tools which is intended to
help WebSpeed developers in the following ways:
Phase 1: (Current release)
- Provide enhanced robustness
- Close security holes
- Make the development environment more productive
- Allow for easier troubleshooting of WebSpeed problems.
Phase 2:
- Provide a set of coding standards
- Provide application security and context management framework
- Provide a set of easily customizable templates for building the most common types of real-life webobjects.
- Provide code snippets for various 4gl and JavaScript tasks.
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| Q: |
What are the features of FreeFrameWork |
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Here's a short list of some of the features
- Easy configuration of broker using .ini file for propath, databases, etc.
- Proactive database connection checking with automatic failure notifications by email.
- "White-Screen-Of-Death" replaced by a customizable error page.
- Enhanced error logging.
- Ability to troubleshoot runaway agents through runlogging.
- Ability to run periodic batch cleanup processes
- Will only run webobjects from paths that you specify
- COMPILE-ON-THE-FLY HTML!!!
- IP based permissions on certain webobjects
- Anti-Denial-of-Service feature allows WebSpeed to ignore some troublesome IPs.
- Warns you about possible security problems with your configuration
- Can redirect errant requests, or requests for old objects, or object which have changed names or locations.
- More user-friendly workshop interface.
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| Q: |
Where can I download FreeFrameWork |
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FreeFrameWork is available from the downloads page.
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Deployment Issues
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| Q: |
What versions and platforms are supported by FreeFrameWork? |
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FFW Version 1.039 works with WebSpeed 3.x on any platform that WebSpeed will run on.
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| Q: |
How do I install FreeFramework? |
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Installation instructions are in the documentation section of this website. In general,
installation just involved copying in a few files, and customizing a .ini file for each of
your WebSpeed brokers.
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About the Project
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| Q: |
Why are you doing this? What do you have to gain? |
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By making this an open-source project for the WebSpeed community at large, we hope to make WebSpeed a
more appealing option for web development. Standardization helps us all to be more efficient at
building applications.
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| Q: |
How do I get involved? |
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FreeFramework is seeking developers who have something to add. See our
Submissions page for more details. We also need people
to download and test both the official FreeFrameWork releases and unreviewed code.
If you are interested in volunteering in any way, please email ffw@peg.com.
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| Q: |
Who runs FreeFrameWork? |
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FreeFrameWork is controlled by its Board of Directors, with input from
the WebSpeed community at large. Anyone with a good idea can influence the
process.
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| Q: |
Who is SourceForge, and why are they hosting this project? |
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SourceForge is an open-source project management system provided for free to the
open-source community. It is sponsored by VA Linux.
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Technical Support
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| Q: |
How do I report a bug? |
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Go to the bug reports page and follow the instructions there.
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| Q: |
This FAQ doesn't answer my questions. Can someone help me? |
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FreeFrameWork has its own mailing list on the Progress Email Group. The
FreeFrameWork mailing list
is the quickest way to get your questions answered.
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| Q: |
I have something to add to the FAQ. How can I help? |
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Email the webmaster with your posting, and I'll make sure it gets in.
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