Introduction

Lasso 9 Introduction

• Awesome things about Lasso 9
• Designed for OO web application serving
• Designed for threading
• Concurrency vital to good web performance
• Highly tweak-able
  
• Much source is available in SVN
• Rich library for working with the web
• Rich library for working with XML, OS, networking, etc.
• Database abstraction
• Hosts configuration user-name and password out of source code
• Built-in authentication database
• Basic and digest authentication
• Users & groups
• Sessions, user variables
• Built-in logging
• Centralized configuration interface
• Caching for scripts/code/pages
• Application packaging mechanism: LassoApps
• Packs compiled code, media such as images into one loadable file
• Either with or without source
• Distilled useful ideas from LP8 and left the rest behind
• Moved whatever was possible into a compatibility layer
• Compatibility layer clearly explained
• Further advanced existing features
• Introduction of good ideas