A p a c h e    O a k
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               by Jukka Zitting <jukka at apache.org>

 What is this?
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Oak is a system for storing and managing a hierarchy of web resources.

The main development of Oak will take place in a Git repository hosted
on git.apache.org.

Oak is a part of the Apache Labs, the innovation laboratories of the
Apache Software Foundation.

For background information, see:

   Apache Labs  http://labs.apache.org/
   ASF          http://www.apache.org/

   Map-Reduce   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce
   DHT          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table

   Clojure      http://clojure.org/
   Git          http://git-scm.com/

 Design notes
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An Oak system is accessed using HTTP, possibly with extensions like
WebDAV or AtomPub. Each resource stored in Oak is associated with a
media type, and pluggable converters are used to generate different
representations of the resources. For example, a PHP resource would
be executed on the server side when requested as text/html. Pluggable
map-reduce tasks are used for things like search indexes and resource
summaries. The managed resource hierarchy is stored in a distributed
hash table or an equivalent cloud storage backend.

 Mailing list
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To discuss the project, please use the Apache Labs mailing list as
described in http://labs.apache.org/mail.html.

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Thanks for your interest in Apache Oak.