From:	 David Mentre 
To:	 lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Attn: Development editor: Latest Caml Weekly News
Date:	 23 Apr 2001 16:32:32 +0200

Hi all,

Here is the latest news in the Caml world (from the 18th to the 24th of
april):

-Content-

 1. DBForge

 2. Foreign function interface generator


-The News-

1.
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 Maxence Guesdon has released DBForge:

I'm pleased to announce the first release of DBForge, a tool to
describe databases (by now : tables and columns) and which generates
the OCaml code of functions accessing these tables and columns ;
this tool can be used (for example with OCamlODBC) to create
database accessing applications without typing a single SQL query
(well, if you don't want to execute multi-table queries). It can
also generate some doc in HTML.
An interesting point in the generated code is that the parameters
and return values of the select, insert, ..., functions have
real types, even through an ODBC interface like OCamlODBC, which
uses only strings. The type of a column is given by its definition
(but the user can force his own type with his own functions for
 string <-> his_type conversions).
A small example is provided. More information on
 http://maxence.guesdon.free.fr/tools_en.html

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2.
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 David Fox has released a Foreign Function Interface (FFI) generator:

This is to announce a package for generating ocaml foreign function
interfaces.  It is designed to allow you to specify the interface to C
types and data using ocaml code, which is then translated into a mix
of C code and ocaml external declarations.

 http://www.fox-thompson.com/dsf/ffi/
 http://ocamlffi.sourceforge.net/
 
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