Good initiative !
I applaud in creating web applications in C++. Especially for scientific applications this makes a lot of sense, or in any situation where some C++ library is already available for the business logic.
Perhaps you should also take advantage of the transformation that AJAX is causing in web application design. A clean plate for a web framework here is an opportunity, given that many successfull page-based frameworks (like PHP/JSP/etc... but also the fashionable Ruby-on-Rails) have the almost impossible task of putting AJAX support in their page oriented approach somewhere. In that respect, perhaps you should get some inspiration in some innovative projects like <a href="http://witty.sf.net/">Wt (C++)</a> or <a href="http://www.nextapp.com/platform/echo2/echo/">Echo2 (Java)</a>. Also consider that some of the most successfull and recent web applications (like GMail) are not using any of the existing frameworks at all, so there is clearly a lack of decent solutions !
Jan. 23, 2007, 3:38 p.m. - Anonymous
Good initiative ! I applaud in creating web applications in C++. Especially for scientific applications this makes a lot of sense, or in any situation where some C++ library is already available for the business logic. Perhaps you should also take advantage of the transformation that AJAX is causing in web application design. A clean plate for a web framework here is an opportunity, given that many successfull page-based frameworks (like PHP/JSP/etc... but also the fashionable Ruby-on-Rails) have the almost impossible task of putting AJAX support in their page oriented approach somewhere. In that respect, perhaps you should get some inspiration in some innovative projects like <a href="http://witty.sf.net/">Wt (C++)</a> or <a href="http://www.nextapp.com/platform/echo2/echo/">Echo2 (Java)</a>. Also consider that some of the most successfull and recent web applications (like GMail) are not using any of the existing frameworks at all, so there is clearly a lack of decent solutions !