The Barracuda Embedded Web Server is an industrial strength embeddable application server engine optimized for, but not limited to, embedded devices. The server's plugin architecture enables anything from simple device control to running a full fledged application server in your device. The application server extends the operating system enabling one to dynamically manage applications running in any device.

• Designed specifically for embedded devices.
• Provides functionality similar to the combination of Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
• Rapid development of secure remote user interfaces for any type of device control.
• Up to 256 bit AES TLS encryption.

The server, designed in ANSI C, is a library designed to be linked into and be an integral component of the computer program being designed.

The Barracuda Embedded Web Server is an application server that includes a web server. The application serve is specifically designed for making it easy to make web applications.

The Barracuda Embedded Web Server SDK is a toolkit that makes it possible to integrate the server into other computer programs such as a desktop computer program or firmware in an embedded device.

The server supports two server side technologies: C Server Pages (CSP) and Lua Server Pages (LSP).

Although web applications can easily be designed in C or C++ code by using the Barracuda Embedded Web Server and CSP, the LSP plugin further enhances and simplifies development.

LSP uses Lua, a lightweight functional programming language, designed as a scripting language with extensible semantics as a primary goal. Lua is particularly useful in devices with limited resources due to its smaller size compared to other scripting languages. Lua is also extremely fast and can easily be extended to control and supervise devices. Lua makes it possible for developers to dynamically load applications in a running system and to upgrade running applications without restarting the server and/or application.