1. Introduction

Albatross is a small and flexible toolkit for developing highly stateful web applications. The toolkit is lightweight enough to use for CGI applications. It provides the following:

A primary design goal of Albatross is that it be small and easy to use and extend. Most of the toolkit is constructed from a collection of mixin classes. You are encouraged to look at the code and to think of new ways to combine the Albatross mixin classes with your own classes.

Object Craft developed Albatross because there was nothing available with the same capabilities which they could use for consulting work. For this reason the toolkit is important to Object Craft and so is actively maintained and developed.