From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2004-11-10T22:53:58+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Catapult 0.1.0 Released

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 01:20:37 +0900, James Britt wrote
> Catapult 0.1.0 has been released
> 
> Catapult is a simple WEBrick instance that dynamically loads and 
> executes objects defined by URL paths.
> 
> A Catapult instance assumes URLs follow a known structure:
> http://host:8080/classname/path/info/stuff
.
.
.
> Catapult came about as a way to write and run simple, Web-based 
> services without needing to run a particular Web server, or 
> requiring multiple Ruby interpreters, and without having to restart 
> the server or shutdown all running services just to reload code for 
> any given service.

Catapult is pretty interesting to me because there is some definite overlap 
here to some of the ways that I use IOWA.  That's pretty cool.  Yeah, it's 
early.  Nothing constructive to add.  Just that Catapult stikes me as a 
useful tool.


Thanks,

Kirk Haines