Since my last post on my little project I have had some developments, The first is that I changed direction and started using the redbeans protocol, which is some what undocumented, but was not that hard to fill in the blanks.

The biggest change is not only the name, but as it says it is now a shared library which will allow any application to talk to redback. Out of this will then come firstly the php extension and a few tools, such as a php version of rboscope and a php gateway, for development via the RBODesigner.

One problem that I have come to realise is that I may not be abke ti just release this code as GPL as I hoped. Unforcantly the more I think about this I feel I have a conflict of interest with my place of work and our relationship with IBM U2. Even though I wrote 100% of the code, I feel that I need to get premission from my place of employment before I release it. I just need to build a business case to prove that it is in there best interest to release this.

I am going to be continuing development no matter what, as this will mean that I can stop having to develop in ASP, but do it in php, which is far more enjoyable.