Introduction

In a nutshell, OAS is an Application Server that

• is written in C++
• has a multithreaded Request Delivery Architecture
• can load request handlers as packaged in external shared libraries
• supports resource control
• offers helper library for applications such as http protocol handler
• interfaces with apache web server as HTTP front end
• is high performance and stable under heavy load
• offers an HTML interpreter so that static pieces of HTML can directly be embedded in C/C++ code. These pieces are converted to constant variable in C/C++ code prior to compilation.

This document gives a technical overview of OAS.