Scheme/Guile Web Services

There are a few ways to call Guile webservices that I know.

• Any webserver can call a Guile script via CGI.


• mod-lisp can be used to pass CGI requests to an existing scheme process.


• Fastcgi could probably be used.


• serveez allows one to write generic servers in Guile.


• An all-scheme webservers is TTN's sizzweb. It descends from Martin Grabmueler's all-scheme webserver in his pers-scheme.

The best library for helping to parse a CGI request is Guile-WWW.
There are a few ways to gracefully generate HTML from scheme.

• Guile-lib has a copy of SSAX SXML, which can convert SXML to HTML.


• skribilo can convert from Skribe format to HTML.

There are a couple of ways to read information from the backend.

• mixp is an xml parser.


• Guile-lib, again, has a copy of SSAX SXML, which can parse XML.


• Guile-pg is a complete system for interfacing with PostgreSQL database


• guile-dbi is a simple system that interfaces with MySQL and Postgres

There are a couple of methods for on-the-fly plot generation.

• guile-charting generates plots via cairo


• There once was a gnuplot library. 1