notability date January 2009 refimprove date January 2009 Infobox Software name Weblocks logo screenshot caption developer Slava Akhmechet, Stephen Compall and Leslie Polzer latest release version 0.8.3 latest release date 15 July 2009 released programming language Common Lisp operating system Any that runs Lisp programming language Lisp genre Web Application Framework license LGPL website url http weblocks.viridian project.de Weblocks is an advanced web application framework for Common Lisp . Web pages are built from simple widgets which are analogous to GUI widget s used in most widget toolkits 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 software Seaside . All html and http level details are abstracted, especially with regards to Ajax programming 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 http www.defmacro.org ramblings continuations web.html Continuations Based Web Applications in Common Lisp With Weblocks by Slava Akhmechet External links http weblocks.viridian project.de Official website http groups.google.com group weblocks Discussion group http freshmeat.net projects weblocks ChangeLog on freshmeat http common lisp.net project cl weblocks Old website Common Lisp Application frameworks web software stub Category Common Lisp Category Common Lisp software ... more details
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