Difference between revisions of "2009-10-22 Blog Post on Project Paroli"

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This flexibility and portability the project owes to its internal structure. Instead of a single, complex process, OpenZIM is designed to run in between existing applications. The ZimReader acts as a web-server allowing the user to browse the wiki's content with any browser available. The ZimReader as well as the ZimWriter, used to generate the ZIM files, are written in C++ and thus platform independent.
This flexibility and portability the project owes to its internal structure. Instead of a single, complex process, OpenZIM is designed to run in between existing applications. The ZimReader acts as a web-server allowing the user to browse the wiki's content with any browser available. The ZimReader as well as the ZimWriter, used to generate the ZIM files, are written in C++ and thus platform independent. ZIMlib can also be used as a drop-in, to make your application instantly ZIM-aware. The specifications of the ZIM format can be found on the project's wiki[4], alternative ZIM implementations - in your favourite programming language or framework - are welcome.


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