From:	 David Mentre <David.Mentre@inria.fr>
To:	 lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Attn: Development Editor, Latest Caml Weekly News
Date:	 03 Jul 2001 14:14:06 +0200

Here is the latest Caml Weekly News, from 27th of June to 3rd of July,
2001.

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  Table of Contents
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 1) ocamldap: ocaml-ldap binding

 2) FaCiLe, a Functional Constraint Library over integer finite domain

 3) A preliminary Caml/Java interface

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 1) ocamldap: ocaml-ldap binding

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Miles Egan announced:

I've cobbled together a simple ocaml-ldap binding and I thought I'd mention it
here in case anyone else might find it useful but mostly to solicit comments and
suggestions.  Right now only searches are implemented but I plan to add modify
and delete functionality in the next release.  

You can get it here: http://www.caddr.com/code/ocamldap-0.1.tar.gz.

Please let me know if you have any trouble getting it to work.

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 2) FaCiLe, a Functional Constraint Library over integer finite domain

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Pascal Brisset & Nicolas Barnier announced:

It is our pleasure to announce the release 1.0 of FaCiLe, a Functional
Constraint Library over integer finite domain written with OCaml 3.01.
This library is "Open Source" and licensed under the GNU General Public
License.

Beside the overall gain in performance and bug fixes, FaCiLe release 1.0
features:

 - New mode for optimization
 - Optimization now embedded in goals to specify easily complex search
   procedures
 - Variables can now be named
 - Improved handling of big arithmetic constraints
 - New ad hoc "modulo" constraint

 - The documentation has been updated and improved
 - Examples added


FaCiLe distribution includes sources, examples and a generic Makefile,
as well as the documentation, available at:

        ftp://ftp.recherche.enac.fr/pub/facile

There is also a web site where general information can be found:

        http://www.recherche.enac.fr/opti/facile

Comments, questions and bug reports are welcome and should be sent to

        mailto:facile@recherche.enac.fr.


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 3) A preliminary Caml/Java interface

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Xavier Leroy announced:

A preliminary Caml/Java interface (via the Java Native Interface) is
available at http://caml.inria.fr/distrib/camljava-0.1.tar.gz

This is a JNI-level interface: it lets you do pretty much everything,
but is not type safe and a bit heavy in places.  A higher-level interface
providing a more direct, type-safe mapping between Java classes and
Caml classes, is planned at some point.

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d.
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