AOLserver is

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. AOLserver is multithreaded,

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-enabled, and used for large scale, dynamic web sites. AOLserver is distributed under the

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. AOLserver was originally developed by

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under the name "NaviServer", but changed names when

bought the company in 1995.

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convinced America Online to open-source the program in 1999. AOLserver was the first HTTP server program to combine multithreading, a built-in scripting language, and the pooling of persistent

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s. For database-backed Web sites, this enabled performance improvements of 100× compared to the standard practices at the time of CGI scripts that opened fresh database connections on every page load. Eventually other HTTP server programs were able to achieve similar performance with a similar architecture. AOLserver is a key component in the

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Community System (

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) which is an advanced open-source toolkit for developing web applications. In September 2007, a port of AOLserver for the iPhone was made available and later

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ed under the name "Joggame Server". This fork is described on its

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project page as being a spin-off of AOLserver for devices.Joggame Server project page at Sourceforge
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NaviServer NaviServer is a high performance web server written in C (programming language), C and Tcl. It can be easily extended in either language to create web sites and services; there are over 35 modules available (including database integration or prot ...

(also hosted on SourceForge) is a fork of AOLserver.

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