Ovidiu Predescu's Home Page

Hi and welcome to my home page! Check out my Weblog for more up-to-date information.

Software Projects

Here are some of the free-software/open-source projects I am or I was involved in.

• Apache Cocoon -- an XML based publishing and application framework. I'm working on enhancing it with powerful control flow mechanisms.



• Anteater -- Ant-based testing framework especially suited for testing SOAP-based Web Services, with support for testing both synchronous and asynchronous SOAP.



• XSLT-process -- An (X)Emacs minor mode for processing XML documents using XSLT. It includes a visual XSLT debugger, check it out!



• GNU Objective-C compiler -- I maintained the compiler front-end and runtime library in the GNU GCC project between 1997 and beginning of 2002. The current active maintainer is now Stan Shebs of Apple.



• libFoundation -- an almost complete implementation of the OpenStep Foundation specification. The Foundation library is at the core of Apple's MacOS X, and libFoundation provides a portable implementation running on multiple platforms including Linux and Windows.



• FoundationTestsuite -- a DejaGnu testsuite for Foundation libraries based on the OpenStep specification, bundled with libFoundation.



• GNUstep Database Library -- an implementation of an object-relational database mapping system in Objective-C. This is similar with Apple's WebObjects EOF subsystem.



• The GNUstep Project -- An implementation of the OpenStep specification. I was heavily involved in the development of most of the packages that compose GNUstep: the makefile package, the database library, the GUI library and XDPS backend for X-Windows systems.



• GDBbundle -- a graphical user interface to GDB that runs on OPENSTEP 4.2. Take a look at a screenshot of it and download the sources or binaries from here.

Emacs Hacks

• Exmh -- a mailer program (home page) written in Tcl/Tk. I've added some (more or less) useful features to it.
  
  
• (X)emacs hacks -- Emacs-Lisp customizations for everyday use.
  
  
• Checkout my GNU Emacs on MacOS X page.

Presentations

• Presentation at ApacheCon 2001, Santa Clara CA, on Using Cocoon to build Web sites for wireless devices.
  
  
• Presentation at ApacheCon 2003, Las Vegas NV on Cocoon Control Flow.

You can also take a look at my resume.