CppCMS is an

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web application framework for the

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developed by Artyom Beilis. The primary goal of CppCMS is building performance-demanding web applications. It may also be used for embedded web applications for consumer devices (such as administration consoles for routers, or smart devices). The library is available under MIT license. It currently targets

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-compatible platforms as well as

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. Despite what the name suggests, it is not a

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Major features

* A variety of web server

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s –

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* Support of various concurrency models: cooperative (single thread), thread pool, prefork * Separation of content and layout with a powerful

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engine * Inheritance of web templates * Cache framework with trigger-based and timeout-based invalidation * Support of Ajax and

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programming *

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processing and validation * Session state management via different backends: encrypted

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, files, cache,

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and distributed solutions. *

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, including support of right-to-left languages. CppCMS contributed its localization

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to the

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project.What is Boost.Locale?
- Boost.Locale Tutorials

References

External links

The CppCMS Project home pageblog with updates
* * {{Web frameworks Free software programmed in C++ Software using the MIT license Web frameworks

Major features

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