The Sympathy project provides applications that can be used to implement and provide web-based services on the Internet. Sympathy is fully implemented in the Sling programming language (http://eqdn.tech/sling/), and is intended to primarily be executed using the .NET platform (either Mono or Microsoft .NET). For more information about Sympathy, please visit the Sympathy pages on EQDN:
The following components are currently delivered as part of Sympathy:
artsy - The "Article Server", provides functionality to run a website based on HTML and/or JSON that is implemented around the concept of "articles" that make up the bulk of the content. In practice, this could mean a blog site, a wiki, a news site, or a combination or hybrid of any of those.
artsc - The "Article Server Compiler", used to verify, preprocess and index articles that are served by the article server.
filesy - A common web server that can serve any static files of any type from a directory specified by the user.
keepalive - A service watchdog that can execute a server program, restarting the program if ever it dies (making sure servers will stay running).
As per the Sympathy naming convention, all server program names end with the letter "y" (much like traditional Unix server program names end with the letter "d").
For precompiled executables, please download from the Sympathy website:
Source code of Sympathy is available on Github:
https://github.com/eqela/sympathy
To share a directory over HTTP with filesy:
filesy -OcontentDirectory=directoryToShare
By default, all Sympathy servers use port 8080 for HTTP communications. This can be overridden with the listenPort directive:
filesy -OcontentDirectory=directoryToShare -OlistenPort=8081
Use keepalive to keep the server running in the background:
keepalive -bg filesy -OcontentDirectory=directoryToShare -OlistenPort=8081
For further information and deeper explanations, please see the complete Sympathy documentation on EQDN:
To compile the Sympathy source code, you will need to get the latest Jkop libraries (from http://www.jkop.org). You will also need the SAM Sling compiler in order to compile the Sling code: http://eqdn.tech/sling/
To compile all of the above-mentioned components, use the build script:
./build-services.sh <sam-command> [path-to-jkop]
A working BASH shell is required to execute the script. The "sam-command" parameter specifies the command you would use (with any path components, if needed) to execute the sam compiler (eg. just "samce", if the command is in your PATH). The Jkop parameter is optional, as sam will use a default Jkop installation if none is specified.
Sympathy is part of the Eqela technology stack. For more information, please visit http://www.eqela.com