[hunchentoot-devel] Hunchentoot and/or CLOS?

[Zach Beane]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 05:58:59PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> I've been reading up on ucw and lisp-on-lines, and I thought I'd ask you all
> a couple of questions:
> 
> Have you found OO development with CLOS, such as offered by ucw and
> lisp-on-lines to be flexible and useful for web application development, or
> have you found functional approaches to be better?  And given that
> hunchentoot seems to be the most robust and well-supported of the pure lisp
> servers (AFAIK) would it be useful to port some or all of ucw and/or lol
> functionality to work with hunchentoot?

UCW and Lisp-on-Lines offer a system for developing web applications
that use continuations to hide the stateless nature of HTTP
requests. I haven't used either one, or the continuation technique,
but I tend to think of them as a layer atop a system like Hunchentoot
that provides access to explicit requests & responses.

OO and CLOS are are orthogonal to continuations. I use OO and CLOS for
my Hunchentoot applications all the time, but I don't use
continuations.

I think UCW can run on top of Hunchentoot already. No porting needed.

Zach