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The traditional frameworks like JSP tag libraries, JSF, ASP, ASP.NET Web Forms, Cold Fusion, Zope, AOLServer, our own Safelayer, live from components.

PHP was always a anything goes, Rails never impressed me having used AOLServer and being part of a team that created a similar architecture with TCL (Safelayer mention above, the founder of that startup created Outsystems), express is basically a servlet engine in terms of features.