JWIG

Java^TM Extensions for
High-Level Web Service Development

JWIG is a Java-based development system for making advanced Web services. It integrates the central features of the <bigwig> language into Java by providing explicit support for Web service sessions and safe XHTML dynamic document construction.

Compared to the alternatives, for instance Servlets and JSP, JWIG provides:

• an explicit language-based notion of sessions, which avoids cookies and URL rewriting,
• a flexible method for dynamically generating XHTML documents using higher-order templates instead of strings and print streams,
• compile-time guarantees that all documents being generated dynamically are valid XHTML 1.0 and that form input fields always match the code that receives the input, using state-of-the-art program analysis technology,
• declarative form field validation using PowerForms, and
• a powerful API hiding the complex details of HTTP and other Web service protocols.

Overview of the JWIG site:

• See the introduction to JWIG.

• Run the demo programs.

• Download the source code.

• Try your services on the freewig server.

• Read the JWIG User Manual.

• Read the research paper Extending Java for High-Level Web Service Development
  (in ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems).

• See the tutorial Interactive Web Services with Java.

• See the list of Frequently Asked Questions.

• View the hacker's javadoc API specifications.

• See the project status and plans.

• Contact the JWIG research team.

Some JWIG presentations:

JWIG is being developed by the programming language research group at the BRICS research center at Aarhus University.