Web application framework

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Definition

“A web application framework is a software framework that is designed to support the development of dynamic websites, Web applications and Web services. The framework aims to alleviate the overhead associated with common activities used in Web development. For example, many frameworks provide libraries for database access, templating frameworks and session management, and often promote code reuse. (Wikipedia, retrieved 16:26, 15 September 2007 (MEST)).”

See also: web application, web service, portalware,rich internet application, database

Software

Web application frameworks

• Comparison of web application frameworks (Wikipedia)
• List of web application frameworks (Wikipedia)

low level frameworks

• .NET Framework (Microsoft), including ADO.NET and ASP.NET.
• Java Enterprise Edition (JavaEE/J2EE) (Sun, all platforms)

Popular low-level software bundles

• LAMP Linux - Apache Web Server - MySQL DataBase, PHP (or Perl/Python) scripting language.
• Windows - Active Server Pages - SQL server (or its free restricted versions) (Microsoft)

Links

• webapplication
• Web application framework
• Comparison of web application frameworks
• List of web application frameworks
• Django framework (uses Python)