X Application Server System
XASS is a system for creating application servers for the X Window System. Clients can query servers or broadcast, and applications are run on the servers but displayed on the client's display. Applications are launched as the user who ran them, making XASS superb for heterogenous, distributed, loadbalanced systems.
0.52 released
11 August 2003
This release seperates shared code out into a new library, LibDS. Otherwise it is identical to 0.51; if you don't want the LibDS version, download 0.51. Note that future releases will be based on LibDS. As always, comments are welcome and encouraged. All files are in the CVS repository. Download it here.
0.51 released
6 January 2003
This release is primarily a code cleanup being released to promote testing of the new networking code. As always, comments are welcome and encouraged. All files are in the CVS repository. Download it here.
0.50 released
28 November 2002
This release includes significant bugfixes and security enhancements, as well as failure fallback, prioritisation, true load balancing, some switches, and better reporting. Servers can be configured to not offer when under load or when too many instances of a user/group/application are running; names are used instead of numbers, and applnk directory trees can be shared dynamically. Again, you can download the release, view the CVS, and comments are encouraged.
0.42 released
29 October 2002
This release incorporates syslogging, ability to daemonise properly, port configurability, application arguments support, and argument/environment substitution. That, combined with general bug fixes, and a new troubleshooting guide, headline this new release. As always, comments are welcome and encouraged. All files are in the CVS repository. Download it here.
0.50 roadmap
29 October 2002
With the release of 0.42, it's time to consider the future. At present, 0.50 is planned to break compatibility by sending usernames and groupnames rather than UIDs/GIDs. 0.60 is supposed to incorporate some form of GUI admin module. But we need your feedback. How should User/uid blocking work when usernames, not uids, are the basis for communication? Should uid blocking be dropped? And what toolkit to use for the gui? Athena (portability/compatibility), QT, GTK, Java, KDE, Gnome...it's up to you! Speak now, or forever hold your peace...
0.41 released
22 October 2002
New features and fixes signify time for a new release. This should add more flexibility, portability and less problems to XASS. As always, comments are welcome and encouraged. All files are in the CVS repository. Download it here.
Web page exists
24 September 2002
XASS now has a somewhat ordinary website. The source for the site isin the CVS repository. If you would like to assist the XASS team with your artistic skills, please drop us a line at xass-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.
0.40 CVS released
24 September 2002
Full source code to our latest release, 0.40, is now on the CVS repository. There are many aspects of the code in need of improvement. Feel free to contribute, any and all patches are welcome. If you're interested in being an XASS developer, drop us a line at xass-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.
