“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.”
- Marshal McLuhan
Overview
CloudWriter is a web application server for everyone that offers power,
flexibility and scalability without high cost and complexity.
CloudWriter
comprises a server-side, cross-platform scripting language, a relational
database, and standard objects for doing routine tasks like threaded discussion,
shopping carts, and so on.
The principle features of CloudWriter that make it
attractive to a large number of web implementers:
- Based
on an object-oriented, interpreted,
late-binding programming language with syntax similar to Java or C#.
- Includes
a web-based editor/debugger allowing dynamic websites to be developed and
deployed over the web
- Includes
a built-in high-performance multi-threaded relational database.
- Has
access to non-native databases through ODBC (For portability, the native database can also be
accessed through ODBC.)
- Has
flexible multi-tier architecture, allowing database servers to run on
multiple machines or processors
- Works
well with commercial website tools like FrontPage
- Runs
in a variety of operating
systems – Windows 2000, Linux, Solaris
- Works
with several web servers including Apache a and Microsoft IIS
- Includes
built-in classes and functions for performing frequently-used
web-based tasks like email, shopping carts, database operations, XML
input/output, peer-to-peer operations (like Gnutella)
- Optionally
includes source code.
- Is
written entirely in C/C++ and CloudWriter itself and can be easily ported to
new environments.
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John Elkins (john@vermontdatabase.com)
24 Dec 2001