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Monday May 7, 2007
The Andromeda Project is a freely-available database application framework written by Kenneth Downs and distributed by Secure Data Software.The latest version of Andromeda now makes use of the YAML format for our database specification files, replacing a home-grown solution used in the past. The database specification file is the heart of an Andromeda application, as it contains a complete description not just of table structures, but of security, constraints, and automations.Adopting YAML gives us the advantage of using a format that people are already familiar with (and growing more so), plus the advantage of using a freely-available parser, and of course not having to maintain our own parser any more. Further, we were able to increase the level of error-checking and trapping when processing the database spec file.The tutorials and Introduction on the website have been updated to reflect the new format.