Free web application software for linux

SME Web Application Framework provides a Web application framework for small and medium-sized organizations.

SMEWebApp is a framework for constructing Web applications for SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises, companies, institutions, and organizations). It is built on phpWebApp, and it is higher-level and more specific than phpWebApp.

It has some components that can be reused in any application (perhaps with small modifications), like hierarchical menus, user authentication, and user administration.

The aim of the project is to make Web application construction for SMEs easier than using VB.

php.MVC implements the Model-View-Controller design pattern, and encourages application design based on the Model 2 paradigm. This design model allows the Web page or other contents (View) to be mostly separated from the internal application code (Controller/Model), making it easier for designers and programmers to focus on their respective areas of expertise.
The framework provides a single entry point Controller. The Controller is responsible for allocating HTTP requests to the appropriate Action handler (Model) based on configuration mappings.
The Model contains the business logic for the application. The Controller then forwards the request to the appropriate View component, which is usually implemented using a combination of HTML with PHP tags in the form of templates. The resulting contents are returned to the client browser, or via another protocol such as SMTP.
php.MVC is a PHP port of Jakarta Struts. It currently supports many features of Struts, including declarative application configuration via the XML digester. For example, mappings from the various Action business logic components to appropriate results pages can be specified declaratively in the XML configuration file.
Main features:
- Free OpenSource software: This gives users full control of the software, and the able to modify the source code to suit specific needs.
- Security: php.MVC applications have only one entry point (per application). This makes it easy to protect sensitive application code and data.
- Flexible Installation: Individual php.MVC applications can be installed outside of the main php.MVC library directory tree.
- Multi-applications: There is no limit to the number of applications per php.MVC installation.
- Object Oriented design (OOD). The php.MVC framework is based on OOD principles, making it more extendable and maintainable.
- Database integration: The php.MVC framework ships with the Pear::DB Database Abstraction Layer, and a driver for the MySQL relational database manager (RDBM) is provided.
- Action Chaining: php.MVC allows for passing control to other Actions. This makes it easy to process a sequence of Actions (business logic classes) and static resources (pages).
- XML configuration: php.MVC uses declarative application configurations using Extensible Markup Language (XML) files. Each application has its own XML configuration file.
- MVC Model 2 design: php.MVC implements the Model-View-Controller (MVC) Model 2 design pattern. The Model 2 paradigm allows the separation of the application presentation from the business logic, making it easier for designers and programmers to focus on their respective areas of expertise.
- Form button mapping: php.MVC implements the LookupDispatchAction class to enable HTML form buttons to be mapped to particular business logic methods. For example, a form submit button called "Add to Cart" could be mapped to an Action class method called MyCartAction->addToCart(...).
- Message Resources: php.MVC provides a PropertyMessageResources class that handles messages in text string properties files with parametric replacement. This can provide Locale-sensitive messages for internationalized applications.
- The php.MVC framework is based on Jakarta Struts application framework design. Struts has proven to be reliable, extendable and well supported.
Enhancements:
- This development release adds bugfixes and enhancements to the framework, a compressed performance version for use in more demanding hosting environments, and an example application to demonstrate the use of both versions.

Calyxo Web Application Framework encourages in MVC model 2 based web application development.

It offers support for true modular applications, i18n, a flexible view manager, a powerful validation engine, and more! Calyxo is entirely written in Java and builds on the latest Servlet and JSP technologies.

The Calyxo project divides into several components

Calyxo Base - this component collects some of the basic, reusable classes used throughout all the other components. It introduces basic concepts like modules, i18n, accessors and so on...

Calyxo Control - this component implements the Calyxo controller. Calyxo uses an approach similar to Struts here, so Struts users should feel familiar with Calyxo from the start. Calyxo Control may be considered as the "main part" of the Calyxo platform.

Calyxo Forms - this component allows the definition of forms, along with all their validation steps and lets you map inputs to properties of a data object. Complex validations, dependencies between inputs and mapping an input to a set of properties are supported. The Calyxo Forms JSP tag library provides replacements for HTML elements related to forms.

Calyxo Panels - this component allows the definition of pages in a container/component manner. Pages are dynamically composed from a tree of page fragments. Panel definitions may be nested to arbitrary depth and may use inheritance.

Calyxo Struts - this component focuses on integrating Calyxo parts into the very popular Apache Struts framework. The Calyxo Panels and Calyxo Forms components may be used with Struts to replace Struts Tiles and the Struts Validator.

REST::Application is a framework for building RESTful web-applications.

SYNOPSIS

# MyRESTApp L instance / mod_perl handler
package MyRESTApp;
use Apache;
use Apache::Constants qw(:common);

sub handler {
__PACKAGE__->new(request => $r)->run();
return OK;
}

sub getMatchText { return Apache->uri }

sub setup {
my $self = shift;
$self->resourceHooks(
qr{/rest/parts/(d+)} => get_part,
# ... other handlers here ...
);
}

sub get_part {
my ($self, $part_num) = @_;
# Business logic to retrieve part num
}

# Apache conf
< Location /rest >
perl-script .cgi
PerlHandler MyRESTApp
< /Location >

This module acts as a base class for applications which implement a RESTful interface. When an HTTP request is received some dispatching logic in REST::Application is invoked, calling different handlers based on what the kind of HTTP request it was (i.e. GET, PUT, etc) and what resource it was trying to access. This module wont ensure that your API is RESTful but hopefully it will aid in developing a REST API.

SOPE Application Server is an extensive set of frameworks (16 frameworks, ~1500 classes) which form a complete Web application server environment.
Besides the Apple WebObjects compatible appserver extended with Zope concepts, it contains a large set of reusable classes: XML processing (SAX2, DOM, XML-RPC), MIME/IMAP4 processing, LDAP connectivity, RDBMS connectivity, and iCalendar parsing.
The individual frameworks of the package can be used standalone (for example in Cocoa applications) and do not require the application server itself.
For MacOSX developers, the package includes SOPE:X, which contains special Xcode and Cocoa support for SOPE.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes a set of minor bugs.
- It improves the vCard parser, the IMAP4 client library, the MySQL adaptor, and BSD packaging.

The Horde Application Framework is written in PHP, and provides the common tools a Web application requires: classes for dealing with preferences, compression, browser detection, connection tracking, MIME, and more.
The Horde Framework does not provide any significant end user functionality and it provides a base for other applications and tools for developers. You will probably want to install some of the available Horde applications, such as IMP (a webmail client), or Kronolith (a calendar).
Enhancements:
- The Oracle session handler has been rewritten. vTimezone support for iCalendar data and ORG support for vCard data have been added.
- The Samba and Cyrus SQL authentication drivers have been improved.
- Automatic Web root detection and signature dimming have been improved.
- Compatibility of generated ZIP files has been improved.
- Validation of some email distribution lists has been fixed.
- Many small fixes and improvements have been made.
- Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, and Traditional Chinese translations have been updated.

phpWebApp is an application framework which makes easy and simple the task of building PHP web applications based on relational databases. It separates the task of designing and changing the layout of the application from the task of implementing the logic of the application, by using XML templates that are an extension of XHTML.
The project also simplifies the task of implementing the logic of the application by offering an event based programming model. In addition, phpWebApp tries to offer modularity and code reusability to the community of webApp developers.
Main features:
- The framework separates the layout from the logic of the application, so a graphical designer can easily improve the layout of the application without getting messed with the logic and without having to understand it. It makes easier the work of both the graphical designer and the programer. This also facilitates an iterative and incremental development approach for web application projects.
- The framework gives the possibility to divide a page into several parts which can be used in other pages as well. This makes the user interface of the application (the layout, the graphical part) more structured and easier to understand and maintain and makes easier the work of the graphical designer.
- The framework looks at web applications from a new point of view. From this point of view, a web application is a state machine, which can be represented and described by one or more statechart diagrams. Each page of the application that is displayed, represents the application in a certain state. Clicking to a link causes a transition to another state of the application. This simplifies the design and the implementation of web applications. Later, if this point of view is formalised and elaborated enough, it may provide the theoretical bases for automatic code generation of web applications from state chart diagrams (e.g. from UML state chart diagrams), and for reverse engineering.
- The framework supports an event based programing model. When a transition from one state of the application to another happens, it may trigger an event as well, which is handled by a function (event handler). This makes the logic of the application easy to build, understand and maintain, and makes easy the work of the web programer.
- The framework gives to the web programers the possibility to create independent web components (called WebBox-es) which have their own user interface (graphical design), client side behaviour, server side behaviour, states, events, event handlers, etc. These components can be very easily reused in other web applications and thus provide code reusability to web programers. This means that if you have constructed something once, you dont have to re-construct it again when you need it another time, but use it ready.
- The framework brings closer the client-side and the server-side logic of a web application. E.g. the session variables (which are usually used to keep the state of various parts of the application), are available and can be accessed both on client side and on server side.
- The framework makes the interaction with the database almost database independent. This means that in case that you decide to change the database on which your application is based (e.g. switching from MySQL to Oracle), then the application itself doesnt need to be changed at all, it will work all the same.
Enhancements:
- Bugfixes and some improvements in documentation were made.

App::Context is an application framework for web applications, command-line programs, server programs, and web services.

This is the App-Context distribution.

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http://www.officevision.com/pub/App-Context

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HOW DO I INSTALL IT?

To install this module, cd to the directory that contains this README file and type the following:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install