Any good C/C++ web toolkit? [closed]

Question

I've been looking around and came across the WT toolkit, Is it stable? Any good? I was stumped on how to go about this in C++, given the lack of libraries and resources concerning web developement. (CGI/Apache)

The purpose of my application is to populate some data from a Sybase ASE15 database running GNU/Linux & Apache Hence allow some user interactions.

I am going to use Sybase open client library (libct) to retrieve columns from the Server, feed this data back to wt model/view.

My requests:

Is there any more practical solution rather than using other scripting languages? I mean by practical, an interface with ODBC retrieving, and MVC mechanism?

If not available in C++, any alternative in Java?

Answer 1

C++ isn't a very popular choice for web applications - probably because it's too easy to leave security holes, and development time tends to be a lot slower than for the scripting languages. I'd say 99% of web applications don't need the speed that C++ brings.

So this leads to a lack of good frameworks.

From my fairly light look at the area I'd say Wt is probably your best bet, although it's more of a library of useful things (like page templates) than a framework.

I'd seriously consider not doing this in C++ though. Even Java (I prefer C++ myself) has much stronger support for web development.