What is KLone?
KLone is a fully-featured, multiplatform, web application development framework, targeted especially for embedded systems and appliances.
It is a self-contained solution which includes a web server and an SDK for creating WWW sites with both static and dynamic content.
When using KLone, there's absolutely no need for any additional component: neither the HTTP/S server (e.g. Apache, Netscape, Roxen), nor the typical active pages engine (PHP, Perl, ASP, Python).
KLone does everything, and does it fast and small.
KLone blends the HTTP/S server application together with its content and configuration into a single executable file.
The site developer writes his/her dynamic pages in C/C++ (in usual scripting style: <% code %>) and uses KLone to transform them into embeddable, compressed native code with the native C/C++ compiler.
The result is then linked to the HTTP/S server skeleton to obtain one single, ROM-able, binary file. This means that he/she can get:
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easy, complete and unfiltered interaction with the host operating system;
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dynamic pages in native compiled code, which in turn implies fast execution, and small overall application footprint;
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all of this without giving up the common functionality of web application frameworks such as sessions, parsing of form variables, cookies, etc.