Hello All,

an occasionally posting monk from a fellow religion: I work with all kinds of web programming languages and have noted the same kind of inversion of who controls what. Most often there is no controller at all, control flow is implicit.

So recently I stumbled upon several things - will cite them without commentary for the interested reader/coder:

• Java Struts has an XML based Controller that is essentially event based (like .NET based code)
• Cocoon Flow has a controller written entirely in javascript and capturing all the interaction with the client. Disadvantage: All the ballast of Cocoon.
• Chris double comments on continuation based web servers and is implementing one in Scheme (might be wrong). Here's the pointer folks: http://radio.weblogs.com/0102385/
• Last but not least: Here's a pointer to a phd thesis on web interactions. Handles a whole lot more than just continuations: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/scheme/pubs/thesis-graunke.pdf

Sorry for no links, just a copy paste away. Hope to have helped some of you onto this interesting topic.

an anonymous ruby monk