MildServer - A Simple Web Server for APL

The MildServer is an experimental framework for simply developing web applications in APL. The design may well change significantly in the first months of 2009 based on feedback from users.

The main goals of the MildServer project are:

1. Make it possible for anyone who can write an APL function to turn it into a web page without having to learn much.
2. Experiment with the use of APL code in Unicode files to run an "Open Source" project.

Although the APL code is intended to be "open source", Dyalog APL Version 12.0. is required as the engine for the MildServer - if you don't have it you should be able to get a free or cheap version from the Dyalog Download Zone. Dyalog v12 is the only component required to host your own web server.

Except for a "bootstrap" workspace which contains standard Dyalog components, all the code which implements the framework itself and the web applications built upon it are stored in Unicode text files, and the framework is designed to be open and easy to extend. The project is maintained using a SubVersion Repository which will hopefully become accessible to the public in early 2009.

Follow links below to read more about:

• Introduction to MildServer - What is a Web Server

  • Parameters in Dynamic MildServer Pages

• Getting Started - Download and Install the MildServer

• Debugging MildServer Applications - First Steps

• MildServer Samples

  • index.dyalog - An Almost Static Page

  • Reverse Text - Simple Interactive Example

  • Linear Regression - Graphics, Upload Excel File

  • Animal Mastermind A Game for Kids

• HTMLInput Namespace Reference

• HTTPRequest Contents

• How Sessions are Implemented

• How User Authentication and Access Controls are Handled

• About Using JavaScript to Implement Client-Side Functionality

• Extending the MildServer base class

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