RE: [ANN] Lua Web Tools 0.9.0

["Andre Naef" <andre@...>]

LWT relies on lua-wsapi for the WSAPI interoperability, and is unrelated to
the other software packages.

-----Original Message-----
From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [mailto:lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org] On
Behalf Of Enrico Tassi
Sent: Freitag, 19. August 2011 10:15
To: lua-l@lists.lua.org
Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua Web Tools 0.9.0

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:03:33AM +0200, Andre Naef wrote:
> I am happy to announce the first beta release of Lua Web Tools, 
> release 0.9.0.
> 
> Lua Web Tools allows you to develop web applications in Lua, and run 
> them directly in the Apache HTTP server. The core functionality of LWT 
> is provided by an Apache module, mod_lwt. In addition, LWT provides 
> optional Lua modules for accessing databases and caches.
> 
> The following functionality is provided by LWT:
> 
> * Apache module. LWT provides an Apache HTTP server module that 
> handles requests by invoking Lua scripts.

Just curious: is it in any way related to

  http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.3/mod/mod_lua.html

> * Template engine. LWT provides a template engine that blends Lua with 
> HTML/XML. The engine supports substitutions and logic in a way that is 
> natural to both Lua and HTML/XML. This makes it easy to develop web 
> applications with a clean separation of UI logic in Lua and layout in
HTML.
> * WSAPI. LWT supports the WSAPI standard, and can be used to run WSAPI 
> applications directly in the Apache HTTP server.
> * Databases. The IS module supports the access to information system 
> in an SQL injection safe way. Currently, the module supports MySQL, 
> Sybase, SQL Server and SQLite.

I'd ask the same question here with lua-apr (for the db and memcached) and
lua-wsapi for WSAPI and cosmo for the template engine.

Cheers
--
Enrico Tassi