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@Checkpoint:

- added automake support. Now, it should be more like a turnkey solution:
./configure && make && make install.

- Documentation and indentation conventions update.

- All the fixes to the JServ logging system were tested here.

If I missed something, it'll be updated as soon as I check out and test the
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@Improved makefile handling. Now the 'build' target will not just blindly
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Documentation update.
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WHAT IS THIS

This is a Jukebox. 

Jukebox is a nickname for the "reusable client/server multiprotocol
framework". This name appearance was spontaneous and unexpected, thus
unexplained, so just take it or leave it ;-)

WHAT IS IT FOR

This is a class library for making the design and development of complex
software products easier. I'm not very clear about a definition of
"complex", so just to give you an idea - at the moment of writing, Jukebox
itself is about 12000 lines, and there are quite big projects (up to 10000
lines) which use Jukebox as a core library.

Please note that it says 'class library', not 'Java class library', despite
the fact that currently there's nothing except just Java code. Historically,
the code which is called Jukebox originated in MS-DOS and C++ (the first
available commercial C++ compiler from Borland), then migrated to Windows
3.1 (where it started to become client/server), then to OS/2 (design
concepts were clarified and complete redesign occured), then Java arrived in
1995 (for us guys beyond the iron curtain), and finally the platform was
decided upon, and then in 1997 the code finally got its name - Jukebox.

So, getting back in stack, Jukebox is not just a code, it's a design concept
which is actually platform independent, and that's why it's not tied to just
Java - God knows what is going to pop up tomorrow.

WHERE TO START

Starting point is ./docs/index.html

AUTHOR

Vadim Tkachenko <vt@@freehold.crocodile.org>

$Id: README,v 1.2 1998/12/28 22:43:48 vt Exp $
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