An Application Server specifically designed for the needs of business applications on the Internet. The WAA allows business logic written in Xbase++, Alaska Software's next generation Xbase development package, to be deployed on the web. This largely broadens up the scope of deployment opportunities for Xbase applications and is another step in Alaska Software's continued efforts to give users and developers of Xbase technologies a smooth migration path to future oriented technologies and platforms.

The WAA is able to dynamically load and unload so-called packages, DLLs developed with Xbase++, containing business logic and application rules. It's started once and then runs in 24x7 mode serving any number of attached web clients. To realize that, it's not attached directly to the web server but talks to the web server via a small CGI gateway program, responsible for exchanging information between the web server and the WAA.

This solves the most critical limitation of traditional CGI based web applications: The limited scalability due to the fact, that each added web client invokes another copy of the corresponding full blown CGI application.