Lisp and Symbolic Computation
The influence of browsers on evaluators or, continuations to program web servers
ICFP '00 Proceedings of the fifth ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming
ECOOP '01 Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
A methodology for unit testing actors in proprietary discrete event based simulations
Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation
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Currently there exist dozens of web controller frameworks that are incompatible, but at the same time have large portions of overlapping functionality that is implemented over and over again. Web programmers are facing limitations on code reuse, application and framework integration, extensibility, expressiveness of programming model and productivity.In this paper we propose a minimalistic component model Aranea that is aimed at constructing and integrating server-side web controller frameworks in Java. It allows assembling most of available web programming models out of reusable components and patterns. We also show how to integrate different existing frameworks using Aranea as a common protocol. In its default configuration Aranea supports both developing sophisticated user interfaces using stateful components and nested processes as well as high-performance stateless components.We propose to use this model as a platform for framework development, integration and research. This would allow combining different ideas and avoid reimplementing the same features repeatedly. An open source implementation of Aranea framework together with reusable controls, such as input forms and data lists, and a rendering engine are ready for real-life applications.