Wapache – Win GUI Framework October 29, 2007
Here is a project that deserves much more attention: http://wapache.sourceforge.net.
It is a modified Apache installation for Windows that links the power of apache (including PHP/Perl/etc. extensions) with the Windows GUI to create GUI windows applications simply and easily by way of custom apache Directives that link an Internet Explorer instance to the Windows GUI and to URLs in your code. It does not require a local TCP port and is very stable. Long story short, you can create Windows GUIs in your web based programming language of choice, including [File Edit Help] style menus, system tray support, right-click menus and lots of other features. Very cool. It is very well thought out and extremely powerful. I think this will eventually out-pace GTK libs and other attempts at GUI-ing PHP, Python and Perl.
Combine this with an installshield package or the like and you can develop and distribute full windows apps in just about any web language of your choice.
Here is a screenshot from the standard install:
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