Re: Ada Advocacy - WPG (Web Page Generation) scheme

["Wiljan Derks" <Wiljan.Derks@zonnet.nl>]

"Pascal Obry" <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
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> I'd like to hear from AWS Templates users as I'm certainly biased :)
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I have tried using the AWS templates in the past.
I think they miss flexibility, and do not allow one to program in the
dynamic web page.
Having developped several web applications and found this is something of
real importance.
Using @@ as escape characters (borrowed from the aws template handler) I
have build my own
template handler that allows one to embed full scripting language into the
web pages similar to ASP or PHP.
The template handler supports writing procedures, functions and control
loops and its syntax is Ada alike.
The variables used are objects that can contain anythings (a string, a
number or a float).
The template handler also supports COM objects.
Basically my applications are build around AWS and allow the template
handler to perfrom
callbacks into my application.
This splits the code in basic Ada code that perfroms the basic operation,
specific to the application.
The code to format the pages dynamically resides in the html files.

Works really great !!