X-Switch: An Efficient Multi-User Multi-Language Web Application Server.
| dc.contributor.author | Nyirenda, Mayumbo | |
| dc.contributor.author | Suleman, Hussein | |
| dc.contributor.author | Maunder, Andrew James | |
| dc.contributor.author | Van Rooyen, Reinhardt | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-07-19T12:39:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-07-19T12:39:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-01-12T09:40:13Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Web applications are usually installed on and accessed through a Web server. For security reasons, these Web servers generally provide very few privileges to Web applications, defaulting to executing them in the realm of a guest account. In addition, performance often is a problem as Web applications may need to be reinitialised with each access. Various solutions have been designed to address these security and performance issues, mostly independently of one another, but most have been language or system-specific. The X-Switch system is proposed as an alternative Web application execution environment, with more secure user-based resource management, persistent application interpreters and support for arbitrary languages/interpreters. Thus it provides a general-purpose environment for developing and deploying Web applications. The X-Switch system’s experimental results demonstrated that it can achieve a high level of performance. Furthermore it was shown that X-Switch can provide functionality matching that of existing Web application servers but with the added benefit of multi-user support. Finally the X-Switch system showed that it is feasible to completely separate the deployment platform from the application code, thus ensuring that the developer does not need to modify his/her code to make it compatible with the deployment platform. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Nyirenda, M., Suleman, H., Maunder, A. J., & Van Rooyen, R. (2010). X-Switch: An Efficient Multi-User Multi-Language Web Application Server. <i>South African Computer Journal</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24775 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Nyirenda, Mayumbo, Hussein Suleman, Andrew James Maunder, and Reinhardt Van Rooyen "X-Switch: An Efficient Multi-User Multi-Language Web Application Server." <i>South African Computer Journal</i> (2010) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24775 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Nyirenda, M., Suleman, H., Maunder, A., & Van Rooyen, R. (2009). X-Switch: an efficient, multi-user, multi-language Web application server: reviewed article. South African Computer Journal, (44), 57-66. | |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - AU - Nyirenda, Mayumbo AU - Suleman, Hussein AU - Maunder, Andrew James AU - Van Rooyen, Reinhardt AB - Web applications are usually installed on and accessed through a Web server. For security reasons, these Web servers generally provide very few privileges to Web applications, defaulting to executing them in the realm of a guest account. In addition, performance often is a problem as Web applications may need to be reinitialised with each access. Various solutions have been designed to address these security and performance issues, mostly independently of one another, but most have been language or system-specific. The X-Switch system is proposed as an alternative Web application execution environment, with more secure user-based resource management, persistent application interpreters and support for arbitrary languages/interpreters. Thus it provides a general-purpose environment for developing and deploying Web applications. The X-Switch system’s experimental results demonstrated that it can achieve a high level of performance. Furthermore it was shown that X-Switch can provide functionality matching that of existing Web application servers but with the added benefit of multi-user support. Finally the X-Switch system showed that it is feasible to completely separate the deployment platform from the application code, thus ensuring that the developer does not need to modify his/her code to make it compatible with the deployment platform. DA - 2010 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - South African Computer Journal LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2010 T1 - X-Switch: An Efficient Multi-User Multi-Language Web Application Server TI - X-Switch: An Efficient Multi-User Multi-Language Web Application Server UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24775 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24775 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Nyirenda M, Suleman H, Maunder AJ, Van Rooyen R. X-Switch: An Efficient Multi-User Multi-Language Web Application Server. South African Computer Journal. 2010; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24775. | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Computer Science | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Science | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | South African Computer Journal | |
| dc.source.uri | http://sacj.cs.uct.ac.za/ | |
| dc.title | X-Switch: An Efficient Multi-User Multi-Language Web Application Server. | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
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