Experience report: ocsigen, a web programming framework
Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming
Links: web programming without tiers
FMCO'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Formal methods for components and objects
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The evolution of the Web from a content platform into an application platform has raised many new issues for developers. One of the most significant is that we are now developing distributed applications, in the specific context of the underlying Web technologies. In particular, one should be able to compute some parts of the page either on server or client sides, depending on the needs of developers, and preferably in the same language, with the same functions. This paper deals with the particular problem of user interface generation in this client-server setting. Many widget libraries for browsers are fully written in JavaScript and do not allow to generate the interface on server side, making more difficult the indexing of pages by search engines. We propose a solution that makes possible to generate widgets either on client side or on server side in a very flexible way. It is implemented in the Ocsigen framework.