Server-centric Web frameworks: An overview

  • Authors:
  • Iwan Vosloo;Derrick G. Kourie

  • Affiliations:
  • Reahl Software Services (Pty) Ltd, Pretoria, South Africa;University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

  • Venue:
  • ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Most contemporary Web frameworks may be classified as server-centric. An overview of such Web frameworks is presented. It is based on information gleaned from surveying 80 server-centric Web frameworks, as well as from popular related specifications. Requirements typically expected of a server-centric Web framework are discussed. Two Web framework taxonomies are proposed, reflecting two orthogonal ways of characterizing a framework: the way in which the markup language content of a browser-destined document is specified in the framework (presentation concerns); and the framework's facilities for the user to control the flow of events between browser and server (control concerns).