[info-mcl] MCL Web server

[james anderson]

good evening,

On 2011-10-03, at 15:29 , Sandro Pedrazzini wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I need to verify the possibility to create a client/server version  
> of an old MCL application, where the MCL code runs server-side.
> One possibility is to organize the client/server communication at  
> socket level, through a (non MCL) rich client,  but, if I remember  
> well, there is a MCL Web server implementation allowing to abstract  
> the socket level and communicate through http.
>
> Has anybody a good link to such an implementation?

you could use cl-http for that.

if you want just socket-level, usocket may suite you.

> Do you have other implementation suggestions?

if you're up for messaging, an amqp library[1] would be an alternative.
the sbcl version has been running in production for about a year now 
[2], while the mcl version was the dev base.
both the sbcl and mcl version use usocket.

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[1] https://github.com/lisp/de.setf.amqp
[2] http://dydra.com
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