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Although we occationally develop applications the "traditional" way for straight desktop use,
our main interest centers around web-based services and applications because this is what
we have grown to do best. May that be a simple set of ASP pages or a fullblown clustered
PHP application with a Postgres database back-end, we deliver the goods.
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For applications that require the use of cross-platform environments and quick deployment,
implementing a web-based solution is the perfect answer.
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Over the years, we have come across and evaluated many serverside technologies and
publishing frameworks. Among these we've adopted and embraced the best, either due to
their availability, performance or excellent API design.
The widespread environmental availability of these respectively makes us virtually
independent of a company's existing server-technology and environment, we simply
pick the most suited dress from the closet and go straight at it, the chamelion approach.
These are our favorites:
- PHP http://www.php.net/
Probably the most popular serverside scripting technology as of now due to
it's proven reliability and large community of users. Has a design pattern very much
resembling ASP with a language syntax best described as a PERL-Javascript-C crossover.
- License : PHP License 2.02.
- Environment : Independent
- OS : Independent
- Whitebeam http://www.whitebeam.org/
A personal favorite. Intergrates Mozilla's Spidermonkey JavaScript engine.
XML driven pattern pages with full DOM and XPath based manipulation
controlled via the JavaScript interface. Whitebeam is still under development and
has got its rough edges, but all-in-all it looks very promising. Can't wait for the 1.0 release!
- License : RPL 1.0 (derived from MPL 1.1)
- Environment : Apache
- OS : Win32, UNIX
- Cocoon http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/
Java based XML publishing framework fully implementing the power XSLT and XSP.
Content delivery to the capabilities of different devices like HTML, WML, PDF, SVG, RTF.
- License : Apache Software License 1.1
- Environment : Apache
- OS : Independent
- ASP http://www.microsoft.com/
Micosofts own serverside scriping host shipped with IIS, needs no further introduction.
- License : MS EULA
- Environment : Microsoft Information Server (IIS)
- OS : Win32
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