Use Continuations to Develop Complex Web Applications

By Abhijit Belapurkar
2005-04-22


Conclusion
Designing and developing complex, interactive Web-based applications is daunting in itself and made all the more harder by the multitude of whimsical navigation paths that a browser allows application users to follow. Continuations provide an elegant mechanism for developing such Web applications as a single linear program that is easy to understand and debug. In this article, I have provided a basic introduction to the theory behind continuations, as well as a practical demonstration of how the continuations support in Apache Cocoon can be leveraged to develop complex Web applications. See Resources to learn more about continuations.

Tutorial Pages:
» A Programming Paradigm to Simplify MVC for the Web
» What is a Continuation, Anyway?
» Problems in Conventional Web development
» The Case for Continuations
» User-Centered Navigation
» You Make the Rules!
» The Continuations Repository
» An Example Application
» Web Continuations in Apache Cocoon
» The Application Sitemap
» The Application Logic
» Understanding the Application Logic
» Resuming the Continuation
» JavaScript vs. the Java language
» Continuations in Java code
» Pros and Cons of Continuations
» Conclusion
» Resources


First published by IBM DeveloperWorks

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