Waffle

Web Application Framework For a Lisp Environment

What Is It?

Waffle is a Web application development framework. It is implemented in Common Lisp, and it extends UncommonWeb (UCW). Its feature list is detailed bellow.

Features

In Waffle you may find:

• Common Lisp integrated DSL to develop web applications
• Definition of a domain model (concepts, relations), automatically persistent
• Declaration of business rules in a transactional context
• Specification of each page's structural layout through composition of reusable components
• Specification of objects interface though presentation and acceptance methods (independent of their usage in the application flow)
• Actions and use cases specification using a continuation passing style (CPS) strategy, allowing complex interactions (i.e., possibly showing multiple pages to the end-user) to be declared within one single method.

Project Context

Waffle is the outcome of the graduation project of Edgar Gonçalves and Cláudio Gil, and it was implemented in 2004/2005 in Instituto Superior Técnico, at Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. The project was graded with 17 values (out of 20).

Documentation

The documentation for Waffle is in Portuguese, and it can be found here. We haven't got an English version of our report. If you're interested, contact us to get any clarification you may need - if we start to get lots of mails, we may translate it to English.

How To Get It

Development of Waffle as stopped due to author's other pending projects' interference.

However, Waffle can be obtained from a zipped archive here as it was at the time of the project delivery.

Authors Contacts

• Cláudio Gil can be reached at claudio.gil @ ist.utl.pt
• Edgar Gonçalves can be reached at edgar.goncalves @ ist.utl.pt