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Abilian Core framework and services
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Abilian Core is an enterprise application development platform based on the `Flask micro-framework `_, the `SQLAlchemy ORM `_, good intentions and best practices (for some value of "best").



The full documentation is available on http://docs.abilian.com/.



Goals & principles

------------------



- Development must be easy and fun (some some definition of "easy" and "fun", of course)



- The less code (and configuration) we write, the better



- Leverage existing reputable open source libraries and frameworks, such as SQLAlchemy and Flask



- It must lower errors, bugs, project's time to deliver. It's intended to be a rapid application development tool



- It must promote best practices in software development, specially Test-Driven Development (as advocated by the `GOOS book `_)



Features

--------



Here's a short list of features that you may find appealing in Abilian:



Infrastructure

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^



-  Plugin framework



-  Asynchronous tasks (using `Celery `_)



-  Security model and service



Domain model and services

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^



-  Persistent domain object model, based on SQLAlchemy



-  Audit



Content management and services

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^



-  Simple file-based content repository



-  Indexing service



-  Document preview and transformation



Social

^^^^^^



-  Users, groups and social graph (followers)



-  Activity streams



User Interface and API

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^



-  Forms (based on `WTForms `_)



-  CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Edit/Update, Remove) interface from domain

   models



-  Labels and descriptions for each field



-  Various web utilities: view decorators, class-based views, Jinja2

   filters, etc.



-  A default UI based on `Bootstrap 3 `_ and

   several carefully selected jQuery plugins such as

   `Select2 `_



-  REST and AJAX API helpers



-  i18n: support for multi-language via Babel, with multiple translation

   dictionaries



Management and admin

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^



-  Initial settings wizard



-  Admin and user settings framework



-  System monitoring (using `Sentry `_)



Current status

--------------



Abilian Core is currently alpha software, in terms of API stability.



It is currently used in several applications that have been developped

by `Abilian `_ over the last two years:



-  `Abilian SBE (Social Business Engine)

   `_ - an enterprise 2.0

   (social collaboration) platform



-  Abilian EMS (Event Management System)



-  Abilian CRM (Customer / Contact / Community Relationship Management

   System)



-  Abilian Le MOOC - a MOOC prototype



-  Abilian CMS - a Web CMS



In other words, Abilian Core is the foundation for a small, but growing,

family of business-critical applications that our customers intend us to

support in the coming years.



So while Abilian Core APIs, object model and even architecture, may (and

most probably will) change due to various refactorings that are expected

as we can't be expected to ship perfect software on the firt release, we

also intend to treat it as a valuable business asset and keep

maintaining and improving it in the foreseeable future.



Roadmap & getting involved

--------------------------



If you need help or for general discussions about the Abilian Platform, we

recommend joing the `Abilian Users

`_ forum on Google

Groups.



For features and bug requests (or is it the other way around?), we

recommend that you use the `GitHub issue

tracker `_.



Read the `Contributing Guide `_ for more information.



Install

=======



If you are a Python web developer (which is the primary target for this

project), you probably already know about:



-  Python 3.8+

-  Virtualenv

-  Poetry (https://poetry.eustace.io/)



So, after you have created and activated a virtualenv for the project,

just run::



    poetry



To use some features of the library, namely document and images

transformation, you will need to install the additional native packages,

using our operating system's package management tools (``dpkg``,

``yum``, ``brew``...):



-  A few image manipulation libraries (``libpng``, ``libjpeg``)

-  The ``poppler-utils``, ``unoconv``, ``LibreOffice``, ``ImageMagick``

   utilities



Look at the ``fabfile.py`` for the exact list.



Testing

=======



Abilian Core come with a full unit and integration testing suite. You

can run it with ``make test`` (once your virtualenv has been activated and

all required dependencies have been installed, see above).



Alternatively, you can use ``tox`` to run the full test suite in an

isolated environment.



Licence

=======



Abilian Core is licensed under the LGPL.



Credits

=======



Abilian Core has been created by the development team at Abilian

(currently: Stefane and Bertrand), with financial support from our

wonderful customers, and R&D fundings from the French Government, the

Paris Region and the European Union.



We are also specially grateful to:



-  `Armin Ronacher `_ for his work on Flask.

-  `Michael Bayer `_ for his work on

   SQLAlchemy.

-  Everyone who has been involved with and produced open source software

   for the Flask ecosystem (Kiran Jonnalagadda and the

   `HasGeek `_ team, Max Countryman, Matt Wright,

   Matt Good, Thomas Johansson, James Crasta, and many others).

-  The creators of Django, Pylons, TurboGears, Pyramid and Zope, for

   even more inspiration.

-  The whole Python community.



Links

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- `Discussion list (Google Groups) `_

- `Documentation `_

- `GitHub repository `_

- `Corporate support `_