This article presents SAW, an efficient web server architecture that can be applied to a wide range of services implementations. SAW can very simply and efficiently implement dedicated Web sites or Web applications. However, it is not intended to act as a full and open Web server. | Journal of Science and Technology Volume 48, Issue 4, 2010 pp. 26-37 A DEDICATED ARCHITECTURE FOR EFFICIENT WEB SERVER TECHNOLOGY PATRICK BELLOT, LOÏC BAUD ABSTRACT This article presents SAW, an efficient web server architecture that can be applied to a wide range of services implementations. SAW can very simply and efficiently implement dedicated Web sites or Web applications. However, it is not intended to act as a full and open Web server. It has been implemented by the authors in Java and also in C/C++ for comparison, testing and evaluation purposes. SAW has been used by the authors to implement a fully functional Web application related to online conference management. After an overall description of SAW, we give the technical details of its implementation and we provide our conclusions resulting from an analysis of performances, ease of deployment and ease of programming and debugging Web applications. Keywords. Web server, Web services, Web application, Java, C/C++. 1. INTRODUCTION Web sites, when they do not rely on a well-known Web Application Server such as GlassFish, IBM WebSphere, BEA Weblogic, JOnAS, JBoss, are built using LAMP architecture [1]. The L (Linux) may be optional but the A (Apache), the M (MySql) and the P (PHP) are widely used. LAMP architecture is a widespread, powerful and efficient tool for implementing Web sites and Web services. Another option is to use the above-mentioned Web Application Servers. They are rather heavy tools providing powerful development environment (IDE) and multiple easy-to-use functions implementing most of Web and Web advances. Such an approach is well suited for Enterprise Information Systems because all enterprise services, internal and external, can be integrated in a single framework which becomes a corporate culture. Finally, developers can use a Content Management System (CMS). There exist many such tools allowing to easily build elegant web sites following the many templates available on the .
