Nevow

Nevow

Developer(s)	Divmod
Stable release	0.10.0 / November 25, 2009; 23 months ago (2009-11-25)
Written in	Python
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Web application framework
License	MIT License
Website	Nevow Wiki[dead link] Divmod on Launchpad

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Nevow (pronounced like the French nouveau) is a Python web application framework originally developed by the company Divmod. Template substitution is achieved via a small Tag Attribute Language, which is usually embedded in on-disk XML templates, though there is also a pure-Python domain-specific language called Stan, for expressing this markup programmatically. Nevow integrates well with Twisted, a framework for event-driven programming.

Nevow had over 700 unit tests as of September 2007, and was deployed on several high-profile web sites, most notably the official Python site, python.org.

As of mid-2010, Divmod went out of business^[1], causing development work on Nevow to all but cease, and in 2011 its homepage was no longer accessible.^[2] There's a project on Launchpad, hosting the source code of Divmod including the source code of the Nevow project.^[3]

Athena

Athena is a Nevow component which facilitates bi-directional, asynchronous communication between the Python and Javascript portions of a web application in the form of remote procedure calls. This technique is typically called Ajax or Comet, though Nevow's implementation predates both of these labels.^{[citation needed]} Athena also includes an inheritance-based Javascript object system, which forms the basis of a client-side widget abstraction, module system and in-browser unit testing kit.

References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ Divmod Nevow commits on Ohloh
3. ^ Divmod on Launchpad

External links

• Divmod on Launchpad