In a nutshell, I am mimicking the design of IIS 7 with ohttpd, mimicking the design principle and application behavior of iOS with WebUIKit API, and the Web design methodology used by ASP.net. Both server-side generation and XMLHttpRequest and friends are supported.
As a cherry on top, I am also going to provide a handy serialization kit that will allow code-free serializable objects into JSON - what you need to do is just write your object prototype with properties and occasional notes of class, and this kit will get everything else done using the wonderful Objective-C runtime. (This kit is actually very handy both server side and client side.) 在 2013-5-17，上午8:39，Steve Wart <[email protected]> 写道： > Older web frameworks are based on a different model of HTML generation than > you see in modern web applications, which make heavy use of XMLHttpRequest > and JavaScript on the client to dynamically construct the DOM, rather than > generating it on the server. > > I've been playing a bit with Node.js and Nginx lately and I have to say I > really like the philosophy behind these systems. A single-threaded model has > its limitations however, and Objective-C has a few features that could really > shine for a modern Node-like application server using asynchronous blocks and > libdispatch. > > Serving up HTML from a web app doesn't interest me in particular, but I am > interested in what you are doing. The WebSockets spec has been finalized and > it is well-supported on modern web browsers and mobile devices. I had a look > at porting SocketRocket (https://github.com/square/SocketRocket) to GNUStep > and/or Etoile, but I didn't want to deal with porting all the CF > dependencies, so I decided to use Node.js instead. > > If anyone is interested in these sorts of features, I would be happy to help > work on them. A full HTTP server is a very complex piece of software, but the > SocketRocket code base is small. I think an Objective-C application server > sitting behind an Nginx proxy would be ideal for many projects, and the scope > is much smaller than supporting the full HTTP specification. > > Steve > > > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Chan Maxthon <[email protected]> wrote: > Well that thing never compiled for me, using trunk libobjc2 and trunk > llvm/clang on my server, let alone I have portability in mind (Written under > OS X, it is required to build on Linux as well, using trunk libobjc2, trunk > llvm/clang and full Objective-C ARC.). And the reason I spawned this project > is not only make a server, but also make using it easier. WebUIKit mimics iOS > UIKit in behavior, very closely. (hence the namesake) To the extent that I > will even create a way to write pages with embedded WebUIKit objects just > like xibs. > > 发自我的 iPad > > 在 2013-5-17，6:25，Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <[email protected]> > 写道： > > > > > Am 16.05.2013 um 21:50 schrieb Maxthon Chan: > > > >> Well it turned out that my darned project is forced into using > >> CoreFoundation (I need CFRunLoop to manage some BSD sockets' lifetime, as > >> it is a portable HTTP server written in Objective-C.) > >> > >> If I recalled right, the first HTTP stack is written in Objective-C, on a > >> NeXT box. > >> > >> I have some web development experienced with ASP.net (as my current > >> website homepage is written in C# hosted on a Linux server using Mono) > >> while the web development suite for Objective-C, an equally powerful > >> language as C#, is pretty much dead. > >> > >> I analysed and discovered that in order to get the most out of ASP.net, > >> Microsoft written their IIS in .net (version 7 up, I have a copy of > >> Windows Server 2012 as a secondary OS on my MacBook Pro and the IIS 8 > >> shipped with it is pretty much all .net). > >> > >> This lead me to think: can I write an equally powerful HTTP server in an > >> equally powerful language, Objective-C, given its significance in the > >> history of World Wide Web. > >> > >> And since the Objective-C language have improved vastly over decades, can > >> I implement something similar to ASP.net, hosted on this server which is > >> itself written in Objective-C? > > > > Have you ever heard of WebObjects? WebObjects was started by NeXT in 1995 > > and is an object oriented web framework originally written in ObjC (up to > > version 4.5) but nowadays in Java (up to version 5.4.3) While still in use > > at Apple internally (for the iTunes Store for instance) the last public > > release was in 2008 and it has been deprecated by Apple. Never the less it > > is still one of the most advanced web frameworks out there. Nowadays it is > > still in use in several companies (like the one I work for) and has been > > extended by a community driven effort (Project WOnder). > > > > And now the best part: There is an free software clone of WebObjects 4.5 > > available. It is called GNUstepWeb. Get it here: > > > > http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/GNUstepWeb > > http://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/gsweb/trunk/ > > > > The documentation is still available at Apple: > > > > http://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/#documentation/LegacyTechnologies/WebObjects/WebObjects_4.5/webobjects.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006775 > > > > cheers, > > > > Lars > > _______________________________________________ > Etoile-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > Etoile-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
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