LHC Computing Grid Project
CORAL COmmon Relational Abstraction Layer
POOL Project	LCG Applications Area

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10/11/2008 : CORAL public release version 2.1.0 24/10/2008 : CORAL public release patch version 1.9.8 05/06/2008 : CORAL public release version 2.0.0 30/05/2008 : CORAL public release version 1.9.7 30/04/2008 : CORAL public release version 1.9.6 03/03/2008 : CORAL public release version 1.9.5 21/02/2008 : CORAL public release version 1.9.4 17/01/2008 : CORAL public release version 1.9.3 30/10/2007 : CORAL public release version 1.9.2 12/10/2007 : CORAL public release version 1.9.1 09/07/2007 : CORAL public release version 1.9.0 15/05/2007 : CORAL public release version 1.8.1 25/01/2007 : Releases are now built with CMT. 11/12/2006 : First release of the LFCReplicaService component 11/12/2006 : First release of the Python API (PyCoral) for CORAL

General Information

• Scope and software architecture
• Talks and publications
• User Guide (multiple html pages, single html page)
• CORAL (POOL) developers mailing list: project-lcg-peb-persistency-developers@cern.ch
• CORAL Team members
  • Dirk Duellmann (POOL project leader)
  • Alexander Kalkhof (CoralAccess plugin protyping, integration tests, CORAL server tools)
  • Zsolt Molnar (CORAL Server project, CORAL release management, maintenance, CORAL librarian)
  • Zhen Xie (SQLite back-end)
  • Andrea Valassi (Persistency Framework project leader)
Past members and external collaborators
• Giacomo Govi (Connection service and Database Lookup services)
• Radovan Chytracek (MySQL and Frontier plugins, Monitoring services)
• Ioannis Papadopoulos (Release management, architecture, base libraries, Oracle back-end, Authentication services)
• Yulia Shapiro (Protype of ConnectionService)
• RCAT development team, Indore, India (Protype of LFC-based services, PyCoral)

Releases

• Reference release (v. 2.1.0)
• External dependencies and supported platforms

Component Libraries

1. Public C++ API (packages providing the public header files and the libraries that a client software component is expected to link against)
   • CoralBase
   • RelationalAccess
2. Public Python API (C++ extension modules that can be loaded by a Python script or module)
   • PyCoral
3. Implementation plugin libraries (loaded on demand at run-time by the system)
   • ConnectionService
   • RelationalService
   • MonitoringService
   • XMLLookupService
   • LFCLookupService
   • LFCReplicaService
   • EnvironmentAuthenticationService
   • XMLAuthenticationService
   • OracleAccess
   • MySQLAccess
   • SQLiteAccess
   • FrontierAccess
4. Implementation libraries (used internally only by other implementation plugin libraries)
   • CoralCommon

Developing components using CORAL

• Develop a component using the installed software under AFS
• Usage guidelines

Code Browsing and Bug Reporting

• Browse the code in the CVS repository
• Reference documentation in Doxygen
• Report a bug through the Savannah bug tracker (Choose Relational Abstraction Layer category from the POOL project)

CORAL Development Team Internal Area

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