Starting a Magma/Seaside pilot project

[Lukas Renggli]

> Anyway, I don't know much about all these - and since Avi and others
> have been putting work into Scriptaculous that is probably what I will
> go with.

Well, I don't know much about the internals of all these JavaScript
frameworks, however I think Avi choose Scriptaculous because it has a
consistent object interface that can be nicely interfaced with
Smalltalk. By using the Scriptaculous Seaside library you don't need
to write a single line of JavaScript, and that is certainly a big
advantage.

> > Mewa or Magritte might be interesting for you too, if you plan to do a
> > lot with forms and dialogs. Both frameworks help to build and validate
> > forms automatically. Since Magritte is described with its own
> > meta-framework, it is even possible to let the users customize and
> > build their own forms from the web.
>
> In fact - this is exactly what we want to be able to do among other
> things. Or at least have forms dynamically built from a model of "Form"
> and "Field" objects.

* Adrian Lienhard, "Mewa: Meta-level Architecture for Generic
Web-Application Construction," Technical Report, University of Bern,
November 2003, Informatikprojekt
(http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/Projects/Lien03a.pdf)

* Stéphane Ducasse, Lukas Renggli and Roel Wuyts, "SmallWiki — A
Meta-Described Collaborative Content Management System," International
Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym'05), ACM Computer Society, 2005, To
appear.

The second paper has got a chapter on Magritte, despite very few class
comments this is the only written documentation right now.
Unfortunately I cannot give you a link to the paper as it wasn't
published yet, but I will send a copy to your personal e-mail. And
there is hope for more documentation, I am currently writing a paper
covering Magritte in deep ... Magritte is available on SqueakMap, the
package automatically pulls in everything it needs.

Cheers,
Lukas

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Lukas Renggli
http://www.lukas-renggli.ch