Related / Interesting Things

Seaside2

Smalltalk implementation of continuation-based web apps.

SISCweb

Scheme continuation server running on a jvm

Borges

Seaside2, ported to Ruby.

Impostor

Continuation web apps for Python. Uses custom apache module.

Wee

Ruby framework using a nice callback and state serialization system (optional continuations. dead project?)

UnCommon Web

CLOS web framework with continuations

Ruby on Rails

The popular (in ink at least) Ruby solution to building databased-backed web applications.

Iowa

Another ruby framework

Perlbal

Perl HTTP server/proxy/load balancer

Catalyst

Perl based MVC framework, adopting ideas from Ruby on Rails and others

Maypole

Another Perl framework

Another "Continuity" project

has nothing to do with this

web.py

A very REST way to do web stuff in Python

Jifty

A web framework in Perl, claims to have continuations but they aren't really

Narrative Javascript

Continuations (through a CPS transform) in Javascript

Jetty Continuations

Jetty is a java servelett container thingie that has continuations

Kahua

Kahua is a continuation-based application server or framework written in Gauche (a scheme implementation?)

Common Cold

Common Lisp (duh). Uses a more targeted (and manual) continuation-passing-style transform

Nagare

an Open-Source Python framework dedicated to web applications development. Uses stackless for continuations... has callbacks and such.

Articles

• IBM DeveloperWorks
  • Bruce Tate, Continuations, Web development, and Java programming (21 Mar 2006)
  • Bruce Tate, Secrets of lightweight development success, Part 9: Continuations-based frameworks (29 Nov 2005)
  • Bruce Tate, Secrets of lightweight development success, Part 8: Seaside (08 Nov 2005)
  • Abhijit Belapurkar, Use continuations to develop complex Web applications (21 Dec 2004)

To Investigate:

• http://www.cs.ru.nl/~rinus/iTaskIntro.html
• http://www.accursoft.co.uk/waf/