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title: "Agent Frank isn't the only one."
date: 2003-02-17T17:10:38-05:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2003/02/17/ooodac/
author: Les Orchard
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# Agent Frank isn't the only one.

<p>Oh, and I completely forgot to toss a link his way, but <a href="http://www.electricanvil.com/">Kevin Smith of electricanvil.com</a> is working on a Java <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/PersonalWebProxy">PersonalWebProxy</a> project also.  With <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/AgentFrank">AgentFrank</a>, I've been leaning toward patching the core together as quickly as possible to enable the plugins and scripting I wanted to play with.  But it looks like Kevin's spending more time carefully architecting the core using <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/phoenix">Jakarta Phoenix</a> &amp; some homebrew proxy work.  Would be nice to borrow from his work soon.</p>
<p>Who else has code out there that could be assimilated? :)</p>
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                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
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                <a href="#comment-221088162" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-02-17T17:50:21">2003-02-17T17:50:21</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Well... considering that "Frank" is already 18 MB over-weighted... what about a drastic diet instead?-)</div>
            
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                       href="http://neuro.nolimits.ro">Remus Pereni</a>
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                <a href="#comment-221088164" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-02-18T08:13:51">2003-02-18T08:13:51</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Avalon and Phoenix rocks, it takes a bit of time till the whole idea and how it works click in but then there is no way back :)

We did this way DataStore (Phoenix) and we are heavily using Avalon (the framework) to some other projects to.</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221088166" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-02-18T11:19:07">2003-02-18T11:19:07</time></a>
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            <div class="content">What's wrong with using Squid as your web proxy?  It's already written, does a great job caching, and as long as it's local, you have access to its entire cache (and log files) to comb through.

-spc (I mean, why go through the trouble of writing a web proxy when there's already one written ... )</div>
            
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