JHCore

Overview

JHCore is a core database for the LambdaMOO MUD server. It is an excellent starting point from which you can build a wide range of applications. Many programmers from different fields have contributed their expertise, refining the best of MOO technologies and following months of extensive testing this has resulted in a efficient, robust and expressive package, capable of supporting development of the most exacting applications.

JHCore is an alternative is LambdaCore, the default core database for the LambdaMOO server. It has several advantages over that database and its many close relatives:

Features

User-level functions

Extensive support for English language pronoun and name substitution [two-letter pronoun sub]
Improved narrative style in standard descriptions and messages.
As part of the enhanced narrative style, object numbers are rarely seen or needed by users or programmers.
Navigational tools such as weighted-path automatic walking with optional manual path discovery to select believable automatic routes for people traversing the virtual space.
Improved flexible connected-user listing function.
Extensive Hypertext HTML-capable help system
Built-in notions of common building objects such as lockable doors and virtual furniture with optional automatic integration into room descriptions.
General purpose integeration of room contents into the description of a room.
Enhanced object matching

Developer/programmer functions

MCP 2.1 support
Verb last modification time-stamping
System for storing verb metainformation
A notion of a current object that remembers an object that a developer or building is working on and allows the use of a shortcut _ to refer to that object in commands and evals.
Module system
Enhanced core-building tools

Administrative functions

Enhanced checkpoint scheduler

Group-based administrative privlege assignment