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+<document>
+
+ <properties>
+ <title>Home</title>
+ </properties>
+
+ <body>
+
+ <section name="Apache Request™ microframework project">
+
+ <p>Tiles-3 introduces a complete standalone and super simple abstraction around request/response objects.
+ <p>We've all seen that the various technologies like Servlet, Portlet, JSP, Velocity, FreeMarker seem to have a different abstraction of a common pattern.
+ They all have a concept of:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>request: the client request, or some sort of it;</li>
+ <li>response: the response to send to the client, or to the caller, with a writer/output stream to write into;</li>
+ <li>attributes: usually maps (or map-like structures) with string keys and object values;</li>
+ <li>scope: places where different attribute maps are stored (request, session, etc.)</li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>Now all of these scopes are concentrated into "Request" interfaces, that acts as a single point of reference for the developer.
+ In theory, everything can be obtained by an object that implements Request.</p>
+ <p> </p>
+ <p>Currently there are bindings for Servlet, Portlet, JSP, Velocity and FreeMarker.</p></p>
+
+ </section>
+ </body>
+
+</document>
