Kepler (software)

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Kepler
Developed by	Kepler Project team
Latest release	1.0 / 4 December 2006
OS	Cross-platform
Genre	Web application framework
License	MIT License
Website	http://www.keplerproject.org/

Kepler is a free software project written in Lua that provides a portable, extensible website development platform. Current stable release is Kepler 1.0, for Lua 5.0; current development release is Kepler 1.1 beta 1, for Lua 5.1. Kepler works on Windows and most variants of Unix.

The platform was designed to work with a number of web serving environments, called "launchers" in Kepler terminology. Kepler includes launchers for Apache (mod_lua), FastCGI, CGI, ISAPI as well as a native web server written in pure Lua, called Xavante.

Kepler also provides the following modules:

• CGILua - tool for creating dynamic Web pages and manipulating input data from Web forms, providing a CGI-like programming paradigm for different launchers such as Xavante and mod_lua
• LuaSQL - an interface from Lua to a DBMS, enabling Lua programs to connect to ODBC, ADO, Oracle, MySQL, SQLite and PostgreSQL databases
• Copas - a coroutine-based dispatcher, used by Xavante
• LuaFileSystem - a library of file manipulation routines complementing Lua's basic set.
• Rings - a library for creating isolated Lua execution environments from within Lua.
• LuaExpat - an interface to the XML processing library Expat.
• LuaLogging - a simple logging API
• LuaZip - library for reading inside ZIP files
• MD5 - basic cryptographic library, providing a digest function and a crypt/decrypt pair.

[edit] External links

• Kepler Project website