Oppidum Version 1.0 beta

Oppidum is developped by Stéphane Sire at Oppidoc.

Oppidum is released as free software, under the terms of the LGPL. You are welcome to join our efforts to improve the framework and the specification at any time and to become part of the contributors.

Contact: Stéphane Sire

Oppidum for the impatient

There is currently no online tutorial or demonstrator. This web site is a mirror to publish documentation. To get involved you need to clone the GitHub repository and try it by yourself.

Where to start ?

The documentation is in progress and not yet translated to english. Stay tuned.

Project layout

This web site is published from the GitHub repository of the project. If you check out the repository you will get the following folders :

actions

XQuery models to perform standard actions on REST controllers. Some of them may be deprecated or moved outside of the framework in external modules.

config

Configuration files to be copied into the WAR when building it with the ant package target in scripts folder.

controller.xql

Oppidum application controller.

docs

Some documentation. In progress.

epilogue.xql

Oppidum application epilogue.

init

Default configuration files for Oppidum (mapping, error messages, skins)

lib

XQuery mnodules that constitute the core library.

mesh

Default mesh to render pages (currently not-found page).

models

XQuery models to generate REST resources common to applications or for debug purpose. Some of them may be deprecated or moved outside of the framework in external modules.

modules

Oppidum common modules. Contains the module for Oppidum administration (backup / restoration).

resources

Common Javascript frameworks used for application development with Oppidum.

scripts

Some build files and installation utilities.

test

Tools for debug and testing.

views

XSLT views to generate REST resources common to applications. See the models folder.

templates

Filtering service to rewrite and serve XTiger XML templates.