Ada Web Application is a framework to build web applications.

• AWA uses Ada Server Faces for the web framework. This framework is using several patterns from the Java world such as Java Server Faces and Java Servlets.
• AWA provides a set of ready to use and extendable modules that are common to many web application. This includes managing the login, authentication, users, permissions.
• AWA uses an Object Relational Mapping that helps in writing Ada applications on top of MySQL or SQLite databases. The ADO framework allows to map database objects into Ada records and access them easily.
• AWA is a model driven engineering framework that allows to design the application data model using UML and generate the corresponding Ada code.

The new version of AWA provides:

• New jobs plugin to manage asynchronous jobs,
• New storage plugin to manage a storage space for application documents,
• New votes plugin to allow voting on items,
• New question plugin to provide a general purpose Q&A.

AWA can be downloaded at http://code.google.com/p/ada-awa/downloads/list

A live demonstration of various features provided by AWA is available at http://demo.vacs.fr/atlas

Ada Web Application is a framework to build web applications easily on top of Ada Server Faces, Ada Database Objects and Ada Web Server.

The new version of the framework provides:

• A new event framework with configurable action listeners,
• Persistent event queues for the event framework,
• A new blog module and wiki engine supporting Google Wiki, Creole, MediaWiki, phpPP and Dotclear syntax,
• New mail UI components allowing to generate and send email easily with the ASF presentation pages,
• A new Javascript plugin Markedit with jQuery Markedit (MIT License)

This new version can be downloaded at http://code.google.com/p/ada-awa/downloads/list (downloading the awa-all package is recommended to get the project and its dependencies).

A demo of an AWA application is available at http://demo.vacs.fr/atlas/

Ada Server Faces is an Ada implementation of several Java standard web frameworks.

• The Java Servlet (JSR 315) defines the basis for a Java application to be plugged in Web servers. It standardizes the way an HTTP request and HTTP response are represented. It defines the mechanisms by which the requests and responses are passed from the Web server to the application possibly through some additional filters.
• The Java Unified Expression Language (JSR 245) is a small expression language intended to be used in Web pages. Through the expressions, functions and methods it creates the link between the Web page template and the application data identified as beans.
• The Java Server Faces (JSR 314 and JSR 344) is a component driven framework which provides a powerful mechanism for Web applications. Web pages are represented by facelet views (XHTML files) that are modelized as components when a request comes in. A lifecycle mechanism drives the request through converters and validators triggering events that are received by the application. Navigation rules define what result view must be rendered and returned.

Ada Server Faces gives to Ada developers a strong web framework which is frequently used in Java Web applications. On their hand, Java developers could benefit from the high performance that Ada brings: apart from the language, they will use the same design patterns.

The new version of Ada Server Faces is available and brings the following changes:

• The Security packages was moved in a separate project: Ada Security,
• New demo to show OAuth and Facebook API integration,
• Integrated jQuery 1.8.3 and jQuery UI 1.9.2,
• New converter to display file sizes,
• Javascript support was added for click-to-edit behavior,
• Add support for JSF session beans,
• Add support for servlet error page customization,
• Allow navigation rules to handle exceptions raised by Ada bean actions,
• Support the JSF 2.2 conditional navigation,
• New functions fn:escapeXml and fn:replace.

The new version can be downloaded on the Ada Server Faces project page. A live demo is available at http://demo.vacs.fr/demo.