Tobias Oetiker and David Schweikert are proud to announce:
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#### Gedafe (the Generic Database Front-End) 1.0.0 ####
Introduction
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Gedafe (Generic Database Front-End) is an application independent end-user web front-end for databases.
Applicationindependant means, that the front-end doesn't have any information about the structure and contents of
thedatabase.
The idea behind Gedafe is to put all the application logic into the database, along with meta-information on how
topresent the data. The front-end then gathers this information and uses it to build the user interface. This
approachgreatly reduces development time since you only have to develop the application at the database level and
theweb front-end comes for free.
And there is more: * Gedafe uses a flexible templating system. It allows you customize the look of the user
interfaceto a large degree.
* Gedafe generated interfaces support "deep linking". This means that you can bookmark every page as it is
presented.
* At the moment Gedafe works only with PostgreSQL. But the structure of the application does not depend on
PostgreSQL.
* Gedafe is *NOT* yet another database-administration front-end with table editing ability. It is a real user
interface.
Release Notes
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This is the first public version. The program has been used internally in a production environment for several
months.
Availability
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Gedafe is released under the GNU General Public License. Read more about it and download at
>> http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/gedafe <<