Franz Update
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Franz has been busy lately! In addition to doing a lot of stuff around the ILC2005 conference, they have done a lot of product-related things as well. Here are a few of the announcements from the latest Franz Tech Corner update along with a few other announcements they've made in the past month:
- 64-bit Allegro CL 7.0 is now available on Mac OS X 10.4
64-bit Allegro CL 7.0 has now been released on Mac OS X 10.4 machines. Contact info@franz.com for more information.
http://www.franz.com/support/tech_corner/#macosx64-071905
- Allegro CL 7.0 Trial edition is now available
Allegro CL 7.0 Trial Edition has been released. It is available on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X. See here for download details. Allegro CL 7.0 is described in the documentation. Start with the Release Notes.
Users of Allegro CL 6.2 Trial should upgrade to 7.0. 6.2 Trial remains available for download until 12/31/2005 and licenses (when properly renewed) will be valid until 3/1/2006.
- Allegro CL 7.0 32-bit update allows handling of very large files
An update to Allegro CL 7.0 on 32-bit platforms greatly increases the size of files that can be reliably handled. (Functions that may not have worked before but now do include file-position and file-length, and the OS Interface functions stat, os-truncate, and os-ftruncate.) The new limit is (1- (expt 2 63)) in size. This is about two million times larger that the old limit, which was 4 Gigabytes. (On 64-bit platforms, the maximum allowable size has always been (1- (expt 2 63)).)
More details:
http://www.franz.com/support/tech_corner/#bigfile-080205
- Call for ACL 8.0 beta testers
The current schedule is to enter beta test with Allegro CL 8.0 near the end of September so I'm starting to build the list of testers. Please send me a message if you would like to participate.
Email to: ssears@franz.com
- AllegroCache persistent object database enters beta test
AllegroCache, which provides Object Persistence in Lisp is now in beta test. You can view the slides and listen to the audio track of the AllegroCache presentation Jans Aasman gave at the International Lisp Conference last June here: http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2005/speakers.html#jans_aasman
If you are interested in participating in the beta test program, please send an email message to allegrocache@franz.com.
- Franz to distribute RacerPro in North America and Asia
Franz Inc. and Racer Systems GmbH & Co. KG signed a mutual, long-term distribution agreement that enables each party to deliver complete knowledge-base and application development systems to customers. While Franz Inc. will be an exclusive distributor of the RacerPro system in the US and Canada as well as Australia, Japan, India, China, and other Asian countries.
Quoting from an unsolicited Master's Thesis that was published on the web this month:"Overall, RACER is the fastest system for OWL. It is also relatively scalable. It is efficient for reasoning on complex ontology with relatively large scale. This makes RACER a better choice for the users dealing with complex semantic data and expecting more information from the ontology."For more information:
Zhijun Zhang, Masters Thesis (M.S. in CS Degree) June 2005 "Ontology Query Languages for the Semantic Web: A Performance Evaluation"
http://www.franz.com
http://www.racer-systems.com
- New SOAP update
The new SOAP interface release provides:More details:
- CLOS wrappers for SOAP structures
- built-in definitions for many Schema types
- new warning hierarchy
- new condition hierarchy
- access to element attributes in SOAP messages
- attribute values may be computed when message is composed
- top-level multiRef handling
- multiple SOAP Body elements
- access to encoding and content-type headers
- complete access to all the message components
- user extensions to WSDL code generators
http://www.franz.com/support/tech_corner/#soapupdate-080205
- SOA White Paper now available
Common Lisp for Service Oriented Architecture Programs
- Linux IDE now available for testing
A pre-release of the IDE (the Integrated Development Environment) and Common Graphics is now available for Allegro CL 7.0 on Linux x86 machines. For more information visit the Tech Corner article.
- 2005 International Lisp Conference proceedings available
Most of the presentation slides and audio tracks are now freely available for viewing and listening to on the Internal Lisp Conference web site:
http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2005/speakers.html
Additionally, you will soon be able to purchase the proceedings for the 2005 Conference in paperback form, and the 2003 New York Lisp Conference on CD here:
https://secure.franz.com/store/conferenceware
- Extravagaria 3: Hunting Creativity, A Workshop At OOPSLA 2005 - October 16, 2005
Artists and scientists both search for understanding. Their methods and approaches differ, and their results are in different languages, but there is no a priori reason to grant primacy to either. Art seems predicated on creativity while science and engineering are thought less so. The question arises what creativity is and whether creativity in the sciences and engineering is the same as in art. This workshop explores that and related questions.
If you're interested in creativity in the arts and sciences, please consider joining. The workshop will be held at OOPSLA 2005 in San Diego on October 16.
http://dreamsongs.com/Feyerabend/Extravagaria.html for more details.
- Japan Special Event - Nov. 17 & 18
2 Day Seminar and Tutorials in Tokyo, Thursday and Friday, November 17 & 18, 2005, 10 am to 6 pm JST.
http://jp.franz.com
- Training Schedule
Allegro CL Certification Program - Basic and Intermediate courses available. Next 3-day sessions:http://www.franz.com/services/classes
- Basic, August 31, September 7, and 13
- Intermediate, September 14, 21, and 28
