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* ASP.NET
- The classes for running ASP.NET are being actively written.
- Gaurav, Leen and Patrik have been building the classes
- required to run ASP.NET web application as well as a small
- embeddable web server.
-
- Currently ASP.NET does not work, but work is underway. If you
- are interested in helping the effort please contact the
- mono-list mailing list.
+ ASP.NET support is divided in two pieces:
+
+ * Web Forms (Web Applications infrastructure).
- There are a couple of components to the puzzle:
+ * Web Services (the SOAP-based rpc system).
+
-
- * .aspx page parser (converts .aspx to C# code).
+ Both are fully functional at this point.
- * System.Web.HttpRuntime support.
+ Publicly available applications such as
+ IBuySpy, nGallery and
+ many others are known to work.
+
+ Web Services stack is being used for commercial applications
+ such as
+ SourceGear's Vault. They
+ even funded the development of our Web Services classes back in
+ 2002. Another example is OpenLink's
+ Virtuoso. People
+ from OpenLink also contributed to Mono.
- * Web controls (System.Web.UI.HtmlControls and
- System.Web.UI.WebControls).
-
- * Underlying infrastrcture for the controls (System.Web.UI).
-
- * HttpRuntime.ProcessRequest is the core of the ASP.NET
- implementation.
-
+* Hosting ASP.NET
- 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').
+ Using ASP.NET System.Web.Hosting namespace classes you can make
+ your own ASP.NET enabled server.
- Most of the runtime support was mostly 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.
-
- Duncan last week got our System.Web assembly to compile, and he is in
- the process of getting the generated output to compile and link with our
- System.Web classes, but so far, most of the work has been in stubbing
- out the classes, just so we can get a clean compilation of the
- code.
-
-** HttpRuntime
+ However, if you want to take the easy path, we provide two
+ different mechanisms for hosting ASP.NET applications:
+
+ * XSP: A light-weight web server
+ written in C#.
- Patrik has authored most of the HttpRuntime support (both on
- the System.Web and on the foundation) but it is still not
- ready to run.
+ * mod_mono: An Apache module that
+ works with both 1.3 and 2.0 versions.
+
+
** XSP
- Currently XSP provides the .aspx compiler to C#. It would be
- interesting to see if it makes sense to extend the ASP.NET
- syntax to make it simpler to develop applications.
+ 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
+ download page or from the Anonymous CVS repository (module name:
+ xsp).
+
+ 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.
- Gonzalo is in charge of the compil.er
+ There is also a set of pages, controls and web services that you
+ can use to test the server and see how ASP.NET looks like.
-** Controls
+ As XSP is written in C# and uses System.Web classes to perform
+ its job, it also works under MS runtime.
+
+
+** mod_mono
- 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
- able to test them in real life: Gaurav and Leen worked very
- hard on this namespace, but needs to be finished.
+ This Apache module is available from our download page. The
+ cvs module name is mod_mono.
-** Extending ASP.NET
+ It allows apache to serve ASP.NET pages by proxying the requests
+ to a slightly modified version of our XSP called mod-mono-server
+ that is installed along with XSP.
- Currently you have to reference in your ASP.NET the control
- and all of its properties, which works fine if you have a GUI
- designer, but is harder for people used to develop using text
- editors.
+ It does not work on Windows.
- Since we have a parser, we could extend this parser to allow
- people to still use ASP.NET controls, using a simpler syntax.
- For example people doing blogs and editing their templates
- over the web probably do not want to use direct ASP.NET but a
- wrapper around it.
+
+Last updated: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 05:07:31 GMT
+