SmartForge Commerce is an e-commerce application plugin for SmartForge with a server side mainly write in java and a client side elaborated in javascript, HTML5, CSS.
This plugin allows you to simply create an e-commerce application and customize its style and feautres.

LINK: http://www.smartfeeling.org/smartforge-cart

Smart QR has been released on GitHub.

Few days ago I promised a porting of SmartForge application framework for Node.js.
Our first application is SmartQr, a simple but powerful mapping service for QR-Code landing pages.

Exploring source code you will find the smartforge node module.  This is the alpha version of SmartForge including only some features (task scheduler, websockets, resource deployer, configuration manager, module manager).
Many other features (like templating) are under development (may be some modules will be written in C++).

Test and use SmartQR.

SmartQR is a real world working application and we have some customers that are solving a problem: managing QR-Code landing pages for paper catalogues. The problem is that onces printed, catalogues QR-Code remain fixed. What happen if you need change target URL?

To install SmartQR you need Node.js. Once you have installed Node you can download SmartQR from GitHub (Download the zip archive).

To run SmartQR you should invoke “node” command passing the “start.js” script as parameter.

LINK: http://www.smartfeeling.org/smartqr/

Node.js is one of the most interesting emerging platforms of last year.
I’ve been very impressed from its performance, architecture and implementation.

Few weeks ago I created first test project to evaluate Web Sockets under Node and from that moment I didn’t stop to write code and tests.

So, now we are working on a experimental version of SmartForge for Node.js.
Soon will be available first release with a demo chat using Node.js and Web Sockets.

Gian Angelo Geminiani
SmartForge Team Leader.

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Smart Forge Twitter channel will publish all major news and updates about the project and sub-projects (SmartForge Cart, SmartForge Chat, etc..)

Smart Forge first “Hello World” has been many years ago, in 2006 under the name of BEEing project.

Today Smart Forge is a mature and powerful Application Server build on Apache HTTP libraries and many other Open Source Projects (like Apache Velocity, MySQL, MongoDB, etc..).