THE MUTE FRAMEWORK, release 0.99 (01/31/2008) -------------------------------------------------- http://www.snarkydog.com/mute 1. INTRODUCTION The mute framework is a generic server/client code base that is tailored for creating MUD or mult-user client/server games. The server features several plugin points and has an easy to setup xml configuration file for creating the different services and for tuning performance. 2. RELEASE INFO Release contents: * "src" contains the Java source files for the framework * "test" contains the Java source files for Mute's test suite * "dist" contains various Mute distribution jar files * "lib" contains all third-party libraries needed for running/building * "docs" contains general documentation and API javadocs 3. WHERE TO START? Documentation can be found in the "docs" directory: * the Mute java api reference documentation * the Mute step-by-step tutorial (yeah right) 4. WHATS NEXT? All bugs and feature requests for this project are now being record on the official snarkydog project website found at trac.snarkydog.com 5. LICENSING Copyright (c) 2008 Chris Engebretson Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.