Web Functions
Stc
Date: 2005-09-21
Time: 11:00
Room: BBL room 471
Speaker: Robert van Herk
Title: WebFunctions (master's thesis defense)
Abstract
The HTTP protocol was designed to transfer static contents. However, in real-world applications, dynamic contents is often needed. In the past, increasingly better abstractions over the HTTP protocol have been designed to allow for this. In my thesis, we propose a Haskell DSEL called WebFunctions, that:- allows for loose coupling between model, view and controller code
- manages session state and application state automatically and transparently for the programmer
- runs an entire web application within one process
- allows for reuse
- implicitly handles database interaction
- guarantees correctness of generated HTML and SQL code
- is type safe