[hunchentoot-devel] Hunchentoot and/or CLOS?

[Jonathon McKitrick]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 04:35:14PM -0500, Zach Beane wrote:
: 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.

Thanks for the helpful response.  Just a quick follow-up: where have you
found OO and CLOS most useful - representing entire pages, components on a
page, or even items within components?

Jonathon McKitrick
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