[Newbies] Two Questions Search and ORM

[Amir Ansari]

Pharo is a fork of Squeak, so it's really just an implementation of Smalltalk.

Conversely, Seaside is a web application framework (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application_framework) built on Pharo/Squeak.

Then there are the two major 'object databases': GemStone and Magma, plus several others that you read about in Ramon Leon's blog.  Magma is a normal Smalltalk package that you can install in Pharo to run either standalone, or alongside Seaside if you need a database for your web application.  GemStone is an implementation of Smalltalk that combines both the language AND the database, so it's rather unique.

So, there are three different things here: the language (Smalltalk) and its implementations, a framework built with the language (Seaside), and databases (Magma, GemStone, Glorp, etc.).

I hope that makes things clearer...

Amir


On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:23:54 +1100
Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue at gmail.com> wrote:

> First question, where is the best place to search this mailing list. I know
> the question I am about to ask has been asked before but I can't seem to
> find a link in the mailing list to use search from?
> 
> How much of this article from 2006 still rings true.
> http://onsmalltalk.com/squeak-smalltalk-and-databases