AllegroServe: Dynamic, Application Lisp Server

The demands users place on web-based applications are continuously growing and evolving, creating the need for fast, scalable and robust web-based programs. As the level of interaction and customization increases, tools that can support complex, full-service transactions will power the websites of the future.

AllegroServe makes generating dynamic interactive pages a reality, enabling developers to create a unique response for individual inquiry. Designed to work either on its own, or with other commercial web/app servers such as Apache, AllegroServe provides added power and intelligence to any web-based system.

Maximize Performance

• Quickly web-enable existing applications
• Generate complex web pages dynamically and automatically
• Publish live and changing data on the web, while the application is running
• Deliver applications to users of web browsers on many different platforms and in many different places
• Build a standalone web server, or interface to Apache or other web servers with the ability to act as a proxy

Key Technical Features

• Install/modify dynamic content generators on-the-fly
• Serve whole directories of files
• Self-configuring
• Secure Sockets (SSL/TLS)
• Access-control lists
• Session support (cookies)
• Support for Password Management
• HTTP protocols 0.9 to 1.1 supported
• Act as a proxy with cache
• Virtual hosts
• Webactions, a session-based framework for building web sites mixing static and dynamic content

Documentation

• Main documentation: AllegroServe, the HTML generation facility and Webactions.
• Tutorials: AllegroServe and Webactions

AllegroServe is Open Source software available at https://github.com/franzinc/aserve/.