ELJ 0.4 Eiffel projects

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: geoff@elj.com

THE ELJ PROJECT ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF ELJ 0.4, OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS 
AND LIBRARY BINDINGS FOR EIFFEL

Australia -- October 6, 2002. The ELJ Project is pleased to announce the 
release of version 0.4, bringing extensive Linux support to the project.

Among the recent changes:
    * Added Linux support for all areas of the library
    * Added workarounds for inconsistences between wxGTK and wxMSW
    * Fixed bugs in the Firebird dbs classes
    * Added a first version of the service manager API to the firebird
      cluster
    * Added printing and application help to wxEiffel
    * Fixed lots of minor bugs within wxEiffel


The ELJ Project supports several applications, relational databases, 
native libraries and bindings to popular APIs. We are actively seeking 
Linux talent to help with such issues as generating RPMs and improving 
portability.


Applications:
    * ELJ GIRLS -- a CRM, especially for software companies, based on
      wxWindows and Firebird.
    * SeBench -- an IDE for SmallEiffel.
    * PVSW -- a management tool for a Pervasive database

Included in the downloads are:
    * XmlViewer -- based on ELJ and Gobo
    * Numerous examples for the wxWindows and database bindings.

Native Libraries:
    * Perlish -- a library that provides some Perl functionality to
      Eiffel programs

Database Interfaces:
    * Firebird
    * Berkely DB (SleepyCat)
    * MySQL
    * PostgreSQL
    * Btrieve (Pervasive SQL2000)
    * SQLite

GUI/OS Support:
   * Win32 API (eljWin32api)
   * wxWindows (wxEiffel)
   * OpenGL (proof of concept only)

For more information about the ELJ project, visit:
http://elj.sourceforge.net

For more information about the SmallEiffel compiler, visit:
http://smalleiffel.loria.fr

For more information on the Gobo project, visit:
http://www.gobosoft.com

Or visit the IRC channel for eiffel, named #eiffel on
irc.openprojects.net