Weblocks

Weblocks
Developer(s)	Slava Akhmechet, Stephen Compall and Leslie Polzer
Stable release	0.8.3 / July 15, 2009 (2009-07-15)
Written in	Common Lisp
Operating system	Any that runs Lisp
Type	Web framework
License	LGPL
Website	weblocks-framework.info

Weblocks is an advanced web framework for Common Lisp. Web pages are built from simple widgets which are analogous to GUI widgets used in most application toolkits.

The widgets are written in lisp, using the cl-who meta-language. The framework supports "delimited continuations" for control flow. It is a full-stack framework, since it comes with built-in database and persistence systems.

Programming in weblocks is very similar to other continuation-passing style frameworks like Seaside. All HTML and HTTP level details are abstracted, especially with regards to Ajax and form parameters (although access to these is easily available).

Weblocks has an active development and user community. The other major Lisp web-framework is UnCommon Web with extensions such as Lisp on Lines that are built atop it.

References

Continuations-Based Web Applications in Common Lisp With Weblocks by Slava Akhmechet

External links

Common Lisp

Implementations

Software

Libraries	AllegroCache AllegroServe ASDF Caveman2 CLiki CLIM CLSQL CL-HTTP CLX Ironclad SymbolicWeb UnCommon Web Weblocks

Applications	Common Lisp Music Common Music Notation ICAD Mirai Maxima OpenMusic Stumpwm SiteGrinder

Development environments	Climacs Hemlock SLIME

Publications

Design committee

Other

Web frameworks

Comparison

CLI	ASP.NET Dynamic Data MVC Web Forms BFC DotNetNuke MonoRail OpenRasta Umbraco

ColdFusion	CFWheels ColdBox Platform ColdSpring Fusebox Mach-II Model-Glue

Common Lisp	Caveman2 CL-HTTP UnCommon Web Weblocks

C++	CppCMS Wt

Haskell	Happstack Yesod Snap

Java	AppFuse Flexive Grails GWT ICEfaces ItsNat JavaServer Faces JHipster Jspx OpenXava Play Reasonable Server Faces Remote Application Platform RIFE Seam Spring Stripes Struts Tapestry Vaadin WebWork Wicket WaveMaker ZK

JavaScript	Ample SDK AngularJS Backbone.js Chaplin.js Closure Dojo Toolkit Ember.js Ext JS jQuery Meteor MooTools Node.js Prototype React Rico script.aculo.us Sencha Touch SproutCore Wakanda

Perl	Catalyst Dancer Mason Maypole Mojolicious WebGUI

PHP	CakePHP CodeIgniter Drupal eZ Publish Fat-Free FuelPHP Horde Joomla! Kohana Laravel Lithium Midgard MODX Nette Framework Phalcon PRADO Qcodo Silex SilverStripe Symfony TYPO3 WordPress Xaraya XOOPS Yii Zend Framework

Python	BlueBream CherryPy Django Flask Grok Nevow Pyjamas Pylons Pyramid Quixote TACTIC Tornado TurboGears web2py Webware Zope 2

Ruby	Camping Merb Padrino Ruby on Rails Sinatra

Scala	Lift Play Scalatra

Smalltalk	AIDA/Web Seaside

Other languages	Application Express (PL/SQL) COBOL on Wheelchair (COBOL) Grails (Groovy) Kepler (Lua) OpenACS (Tcl) SproutCore (JavaScript/Ruby) SymbolicWeb (Clojure) Vibe.d (D) Yaws (Erlang)

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