A couple of weeks ago, I started to create a wrapper around the C++ activemq (http://activemq.apache.org/cms) library, which allows to connect to the activemq message oriented middleware. I had a couple of problems while interfacing between Eiffel and C++, where Manu helped me a lot (big thanks again). But got it working well in the end.

In a discussion on the Goanna developers mailing list, Colin and me decided to move Goanna to Origo.

This puts the library on a platform, that I find easier to maintain (no surprises!) and allows us to improve its documentation with the help of the community as it is now wiki-based.

After using Origo Alpha extensively in our courses, the platform has now reached beta stage and has been received well by the public.

You can create a user and register a project here: http://origo.ethz.ch

I just made available a cluster with a pseudo-random generator that wraps the reference C implementation of Mersenne Twister. Feel free to modify and extend as the wrapping is only here for integers.

It is hosted on Origo!

A couple of days ago we setup an automatic build and testing system for our development of [1]. We used [2] as the base of the system. CruiseControl does check if there were any changes to the source code and launches a build.

Obviously it took me longer than I had planned for to write the next blog post. There are a couple of reasons for this - the most important one - Origo - was already mentioned by Patrick.

Yesterday the first alpha version of origo has been launched. Origo is a platform for distributed development and user interaction. It is built on a middleware architecture that uses JXTA and is written in Eiffel. This middleware provides an xmlrpc api which is used by a website to access and update data.

See more at: http://origo.alpha.origo.ethz.ch/

As some of you might know, I'm at the moment working on my Master thesis and I'm building the core for Origo (http://origo.ethz.ch).