On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 10:01 -0400, Daniel Weinreb wrote: > Nubis, James, > > James Fleming wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > > > > can anyone recommend me the 'simplest' (as in, > > > will-later-find-myself-doing-ad-hoc-stuff-but-it-was-easy-to-grasp-at-first) > > > web framework for common lisp? > > > > > > > I can recommend Hunchentoot. I used to use Araneida, but it seems to > > have fallen to the competition. > > > Hunchntoot is the best HTTP server in Common Lisp. By Edi Weitz, > probably > the best writer of free CL libraries. We use it at work. This > decision is a > no-brainer. > > > > Hunchentoot, then, with CL-WHO to produce the actual HTML. There's also > > a gotcha with CL-WHO, incidentally, regarding when you should use > > (format t ...) and when to use (format nil ...), but if the output isn't > > appearing when you expect, that's the first thing to check. > > > I think the big question is what Nubis means by a "web framework" and > what > he expects such a thing to do.
First of all, thanks all of you for your replies (to the scheme and CLisp thread also) What I want is something that nicely integrates an ORM, an abstraction to make requests be 'functions' that access a 'request' object and return a response object containing headers + [generated html | JSON], I don't need it to have a built in web server, as I rather deploy with apache+mod_lisp, fastcgi or lighty. having urls be matched to a given function in a separate configuration-like file would be a plus. If someone knows the django web framework, all of this may sound familiar. But most of all, I need nice documentation with working examples on how to use each feature, apart from good documentation, see , in the long run I want lisp to be my company's main language (I own a small web dev company, I have 2 employees), and I don't want to force the guys away from python+django with they feeling at loss. UCW and http://labs.core.gen.tr/ seem like good candidates ( I feel comfortable with most 'advanced' programming topics like continuations). hunchentoot also seems to have some of the features I look for, thanks for helping me reduce the choices to those three. Still, Hunchentoot doesn't seem to come with an ORM, but I guess the community has one or two favorites, can you recommend any? ( you guys may think I'm some kind of newbie flame war starter by now :). I think I can pull this off smoothly if I find the right analogous technologies from what I'm using (python+django(which has templates and an orm). Marek, you look like you've already been through this :) what toolchain do you think would be the most django-esque, technical and documentation-wise? again, thank you all :) -- ----nubis :) http://woobiz.com.ar _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list Gardeners@lispniks.com http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
