Kamaelia Documentation

In Kamaelia you build systems from simple components that talk to each other. What sort of systems? Network servers, clients, desktop applications, pygame based games, transcode systems and pipelines, digital TV systems, spam eradicators, teaching tools, and a fair amount more :)

In order to do this, Kamaelia is divided into two main namespaces:

• Axon - this provides the core component & concurrency framework. You use to build components which communicate with one another.
• Kamaelia - this is the collection of components that exist. The vast majority of these come from systems created for a variety of purposes. This namespace is in itself further subdivided into two halves:
  • Kamaelia.Apps - this is where components from some Kamaelia based applications reside. The purpose behind this is to provide an experimental staging ground for new components to migrate into the main Kamaelia namespace. This also means you can use components from other Kamaelia applications sooner rather than later. As a result, these components may be lacking in two main areas - documentation or generality, but putting them here allows for components to migrate to a more generally useful state.
  • Kamaelia.{anything else} - this is where components will migrate to when we are happy with the fact they are sufficiently general and useful outside their original application.