Wt 2.0.3

Wt (pronounce wit-ty), is a C++ library to develop web applications.
Wt API is widget-centric, and inspired by existing C++ Graphical User Interface APIs. To the developer, it offers complete abstraction of any web-specific implementation details.
Existing frameworks (such as based on PHP or JSP/JSF (+ servlets + struts)) for developing web application do not make abstraction of the peculiarities of the underlying technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX, Forms, DHTML).
As a consequence, a developer must not only gain familiarity with all of these technologies, but also with browser-specific implementations and incompatibilities. At the same time, the structure of the application follows mostly the page-centric paradigm of early day HTML.
In contrast, a web application developed with Wt does not differ in structure from an application developed for other graphical user interface systems, such as Windows or the X Windowing System.
Most imporantly, the entire application is written in only one compiled language (C++), from which the library generates the necessary HTML, Javascript, CGI, and AJAX code. The responsibility of writing browser-portable web applications is transferred to the library implementation.
Main features:
- Supports all major XHTML 1.0 compliant browsers (tested with Firefox (Gecko), Internet Explorer and Konqueror).
- Event handling using a signal/slot system.
- Client-side and/or server-side processing of events using static versus dynamic signal/slot connections, allowing for highly responsive applications.
- Transparent handling of sessions with URL rewriting. Automatic incremental rendering of changes to the web page, using AJAX.
- Automatic incremental loading of the web page (with in the initial load step only visible widgets)
Enhancements:
- Build problems related to locating thread enabled boost libraries were fixed.