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Server-centric Web frameworks: An overview

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ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Volume 40, Issue 2

Article No.: 4, Pages 1 - 33

https://doi.org/10.1145/1348246.1348247

Published: 08 May 2008 Publication History

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).

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Server-centric Web frameworks: An overview
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments
    2. Software libraries and repositories

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Published: 08 May 2008

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Received: 01 September 2005

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