Pachyderm is a web-based rich-media interactive presentation authoring and publishing system.
Preliminary Notes (Jan02/16)
- Pachyderm is an old project that has been living on SourceForge ..
- Pachyderm is a Java web application built using Eclipse ..
- Pachyderm's basic framework is WebObjects and Wonder ..
- I see other projects called "pachyderm" .. apologies for using an existing name, but I'm afraid that's what this is called ..
- This first commit should be avoided .. it is a wholesale transfer without any testing ..
Personal Comments
Some years ago, I was asked to clean up and enhance the Pachyderm v2.1 web application and, when that work was completed, Pachyderm was advanced to v3.0 to indicate major changes. Pachyderm v2.1 was the work of many people, and Pachyderm v3.0 has continued to benefit from contributions of other people than me, but I've been the 'custodian' for about five years as I write this.
Pachyderm has been in use around the world and there are probably some still active users of the application. Pachyderm has settled down (no changes in about a year) and I will probably not do more work than ensure this version, hosted on GitHub, builds and runs correctly.
I moved Pachyderm from svn on SourceForge to git on GitHub for a
couple of reasons. One is that my account on SourceForge has been
rendered usable and my efforts to recover it, and my admin rights, have
been a failure. A more relevent reason is that git is the way of the
future, and anyone picking this up (including me) will know git better
than svn. The huge subversion history has not been transferred ..
go to SourceForge for your masochistic reading pleasure!
I note, again, that this first commit should be avoided. It is a
wholesale transfer of the most recent SourceForge version checked out to
my development laptop. Once it's all on GitHub, I will check it out
from there, rebuild it and make any necessary corrections. When that is
done, I will edit this README.md to reflect that progress.
Finally, for now, I will also note that this transfer to GitHub was a my unilateral decision. I will inform those developers and users that I know might have an interest (and for whom I have currect contact information) of my action. If the transfer to GitHub is problematic in any practical way (ie: they are actively using SourceForge), we'll negotiate and/or compromise all the good of all.
(Jan03/16)
Anyone who wants to explore this application will need to climb a bit of a learning curve. At this point, it is assumed that the explorer is familiar with WebObjects (a very powerful Apple, originally NeXT, Java library on which enterprise web applications have been built), and the Wonder project, a major Open Source enhancement of WebObjects, which is under active development. Pachyderm uses Wonder 7 and, therefore, needs Java 7.