Business Objects' Quark Framework for Java, which includes a Haskell-like language CAL has recently been released as open source under a BSD style license. Details and downloads are available on the Main Business Objects Labs Page for CAL. The framework, with or without sources, can be downloaded without any kind of registration.

For those who did not see last year's announcements and the seeding of the framework (without sources), there are a number of documents available that should help with understanding the nature of the CAL language, the SDK and tools.

Naturally, we hope that people will provide feedback and contribute in other ways, and we have a discussion forum available for this purpose - see link on the main page.

We continue to be very active on this project, with a current focus on improving the Eclipse integration as well as continued evolution of the language.

Luke Evans

Chief Scientist, VP Research, Business Objects