[Web-SIG] Re: Just lost another one to Rails

[Paul Boddie]

On Friday 15 April 2005 22:31, Blake Winton wrote:
>
> > I'd love to find out that I'm wrong, although I guess I would
> > find the WSGI idioms around accessing request headers/form-encoded
> > data and collecting response information a bit cumbersome compared
> > to the APIs provided by Webstack, Quixote, Webware, CherryPy, etc.
>
> Is there any commonality between those APIs?

Perhaps. WebStack originally took some inspiration from Webware and the Java 
Servlet API, but I think that the "vocabulary" is pretty standard, so it 
isn't necessarily that difficult to map WebStack API methods to framework 
methods. Quixote and CherryPy may have similar abstractions, but unlike most 
of the frameworks supported by WebStack, these frameworks impose various 
constraints (object publishing and template-orientation) that seemingly make 
it impractical to support them in an API at WebStack's level.

Paul