GNUstepWeb is a development environment and an application server

Application server

An application server is a software framework that provides an environment in which applications can run, no matter what the applications are or what they do...

 for Web Application

Web application

A web application is an application that is accessed over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. The term may also mean a computer software application that is coded in a browser-supported language and reliant on a common web browser to render the application executable.Web applications are...

s. It is characterized by strict separation of data storage, processing and user interface development.

GNUstepWeb is based on GNUstep

GNUstep

GNUstep is a free software implementation of Cocoa Objective-C libraries , widget toolkit, and application development tools not only for Unix-like operating systems, but also for Microsoft Windows. It is part of the GNU Project.GNUstep features a cross-platform, object-oriented development...

. Its goals are to be compatible to WebObjects

WebObjects

WebObjects was a Java web application server from Apple Inc., and a web application framework that ran on the server. It was available at no additional cost. Its hallmark features were its object-orientation, database connectivity, and prototyping tools...

 version 4.5.x with some extensions.
Apple's WebObjects was ported to Java

Java (programming language)

Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

 with version 5. GNUstepWeb continues using Objective-C

Objective-C

Objective-C is a reflective, object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language.Today, it is used primarily on Apple's Mac OS X and iOS: two environments derived from the OpenStep standard, though not compliant with it...

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External links

• GNUstep.org - homepage
• GNUstepWiki - homepage of GNUstep wiki
• lists.turbocat.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/gswhackers – developer mailing list.