Yaws (web server)

Yaws
Developer(s)	Claes Wikström
Stable release	1.95 / October 17, 2012; 5 months ago (2012-10-17)
Written in	Erlang
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Web server
License	BSD licence
Website	http://yaws.hyber.org/

Yaws (Yet another web server) is a web server written in Erlang by Claes (klacke) Wikström. Yaws can be embedded into other Erlang-based applications or run as a regular standalone web server.^[1]

Because Yaws uses Erlang's lightweight threading system, it performs well under high concurrency. A load test conducted in 2002 comparing Yaws and Apache found that with the hardware tested, Apache 2.0.39 with the worker MPM failed at 4,000 concurrent connections, while Yaws continued functioning with over 80,000 concurrent connections.^[2]

References

^ Steve Vinoski article at the IEEE Internet Computing review, July/August 2011
^ Ghodsi, Ali. "Apache vs. Yaws". http://www.sics.se/~joe/apachevsyaws. html. Retrieved January 17, 2007.

External links

Yaws home page
Interview with YAWS developer Claes Klacke Wikstrom (MP3 version)
ErlyWeb — MVC-pattern web framework for Yaws.
Erlang Web — MVC-pattern web framework Yaws and Inets Erlang/OTP application.
Nitrogen - An event-driven Web 2.0 framework for Erlang that runs on Yaws, Mochiweb, and Inets.

Web application frameworks

ASP.NET	ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET Web Forms ASP.NET Dynamic Data BFC DotNetNuke MonoRail OpenRasta Umbraco

ColdFusion	ColdBox Platform ColdSpring Fusebox Mach-II Model-Glue onTap on Wheels

Common Lisp	CL-HTTP UnCommon Web Weblocks

C++	CppCMS Wt

Java	Apache Struts AppFuse Flexive GWT Grails Vaadin ItsNat JavaServer Faces Jspx Makumba OpenXava Play Portofino Eclipse RAP Reasonable Server Faces RIFE Seam Spring Stripes Tapestry WebWork Wicket ZK ICEfaces WaveMaker

Scala	Circumflex Lift (web framework) Play Scalatra

JavaScript	Ample SDK Closure Ext JS Helma Prototype JavaScript Framework Rico Sencha Touch script.aculo.us SproutCore jQuery Dojo Toolkit

Perl	Catalyst Dancer Gantry Mason Maypole Mojolicious Poet WebGUI

PHP	AppFlower CakePHP CodeIgniter Drupal eZ Publish FuelPHP Horde Joomla! Lithium Midgard MODX Qcodo Seagull SilverStripe Symfony TYPO3 WordPress Xaraya Yii Zend Framework Zeta Components

Python	BlueBream CherryPy Django Flask Grok Nevow Pyjamas Pylons Pyramid Quixote TurboGears web2py Zope 2 Tornado

Ruby	Ruby on Rails Merb Sinatra Hobo Camping Nitro Ramaze

Smalltalk	AIDA/Web Seaside

Other languages	Application Express (PL/SQL) Happstack (Haskell) Kepler (Lua) OpenACS (Tcl) SproutCore (JavaScript/Ruby) Yaws (Erlang) SymbolicWeb (Clojure)

See also

References

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