* Web Services (the SOAP-based rpc system).
</ul>
- There is work underway for both systems. The Web Forms
- support is quite advanced at this point, and various ".aspx"
- programs can be run using the Mono runtime, including IBuySpy.
+ Both are functional at this point, and applications like
+ "IBuySpy" run with Mono.
ASP.NET works either embedded into
our XSP server test server or the mod_mono Apache module.
- We are now working bug fixing and adding missing features
+ We are now working on bug fixing and adding missing features
after making the whole pipeline compatible with MS.
- Tim started work on the Web Services. Lluis is in charge of
- it now and web services are now supported. He also added a web
- service sample to the XSP server set of tests.
+ Tim started work on the Web Services. After that, Lluis is in
+ charge and has been working hard on them as part of our
+ <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">SourceGear</a> contract.
+
+ Web services are now supported and there are some samples in the
+ XSP set of tests.
-** HttpRuntime
+** Hosting
- Patrik has authored most of the HttpRuntime support (both on
- the System.Web and on the foundation).
+ ASP.NET provides a hosting interface. Today we ship support
+ for two different hosting mechanisms:
+ <ul>
+ * <a href="#xsp">XSP</a>: A light-weight C# web server.
-** XSP
+ * <a href="#mod_mono">mod_mono</a>: An apache module
+ that can host the Mono runtime and the ASP.NET runtime
+ </ul>
- This is where initial development of the .aspx/.ascx/.asax compiler
- to C# took place. That compiler is now integrated in System.Web classes
- mostly under System.Web.Compilation namespace.
+<a name="xsp">
+** XSP
- We added a new web server that works with mono and MS runtime and is
- being used to debug our classes. It resides in xsp/server. A couple of
- classes of this new server can be reused/extended to make an apache
- module/cgi using mono (MonoWorkerRequest and MonoApplicationHost).
+ XSP is a simple web server written in C# that can be used to
+ run your ASP.NET applications. The code is available from our
+ <a href="download.html">download page</a> or from the <a
+ href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS</a> repository (module name:
+ xsp)/.
+
+ This is where initial development of the .aspx/.ascx/.asax
+ compiler to C# took place. That compiler is now integrated in
+ System.Web classes mostly under System.Web.Compilation
+ namespace. We added a new web server that works with mono and
+ MS runtime and is being used to debug our classes. It resides
+ in xsp/server.
+
+ A couple of classes of this new server can be reused/extended
+ to make an apache module/cgi using mono (MonoWorkerRequest and
+ MonoApplicationHost). This server also uses a couple of
+ plugins distributed with Mono to support gzip HTTP transfers.
There is also a set of .aspx pages to test the server along with
a few user controls under xsp/test.
You can check it out from CVS and run 'make install' to test it.
+<a name="mod_mono">
+* mod_mono
+
+ This Apache module is available from our <a
+ href="download.html">download page</a>. The <a href="anoncvs.html">
+ cvs</a> module name is mod_mono. It works with both 1.3 and 2.0
+ versions of the <a href="http://httpd.apache.org">apache server</a>.
+
+ It allows apache to serve ASP.NET pages.
+
+ Work is underway to improve it.
+
** Controls
A lot of work has been put in the various classes that
- implement the controls (UI.HtmlControls and UI.WebControls),
- but they have been coded mostly in the dark, and without being
+ implement the controls (UI.HtmlControls and UI.WebControls).
+ They have been coded mostly in the dark, and without being
able to test them in real life: Gaurav and Leen worked very
- hard on this namespace.
+ hard on this namespace. After that, we keep fixing bugs on
+ them.
We can now render all HtmlControls and all WebControls.
We want to encourage developers to create open source controls
that can be used both on Mono's ASP.NET and Microsoft's ASP.NET.
-* Web Forms: The pieces (historical)
-
- There are a couple of components to the puzzle:
-
- <ul>
- * .aspx page parser (converts .aspx to C# code).
-
- * System.Web.HttpRuntime support.
-
- * Web controls (System.Web.UI.HtmlControls and
- System.Web.UI.WebControls).
-
- * Underlying infrastructure for the controls (System.Web.UI).
-
- * HttpRuntime.ProcessRequest is the core of the ASP.NET
- implementation.
- </ul>
-
-
- Gonzalo has been working on an ASP.NET parser that takes .aspx
- files and generated the code required to run them (the code lives in
- module `xsp' along with a little web server for testing).
-
- Most of the runtime support was written by Patrik Torstensson
- (now at Intel). This was interesting, because in order to implement
- some of its features, Patrik had to go into the runtime/JIT engine and
- he spent a few weeks doing work there.
-
- The classes for running ASP.NET are being actively written.
- Gaurav, Leen and Patrik worked in the core of the classes
- required to run ASP.NET web application as well as a small
- embeddable web server.
-
- Duncan got our System.Web assembly to compile.
-
** How to Help
Testing and fixing HtmlControls, WebControls and validators is an
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