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Patching onto the Web
Davies B., Davies V. Communications of the ACM40 (5):66-69,1997.Type:Article
Date Reviewed: Nov 1 1997

The authors share their experience of porting a single-user standalone Macintosh Common Lisp application to a Web environment. The application is a text-based browser that presents objects in a hierarchical table. Motorola uses it as a component of a toolset for scheduling semiconductor fabrication. The need for migration to a Web-based client/server system is attributed to the large memory requirements of the standalone version and the difficulty of coordinating updates. The description of the actual conversion is brief. The authors claim that the use of Common Lisp Hypermedia Servers (CL-HTTP) and the dynamic object capabilities of LISP made it possible to port the application with very limited changes to the existing code. They evaluate the result, stating that they achieved multiuser data access with no loss of performance, but that the initial goal of retaining a similar user interface could not be met, due to the different nature of a Web-based browser. The paper might be useful as encouragement to those who are considering a similar project, but it is too superficial to be used as a guideline. All technical detail is omitted, and considerably more attention is paid to a broad description of the application than to the conversion itself.

Reviewer:  Wilfried Lemahieu Review #: CR121049 (9711-0930)
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