[ANN] iStoa, a project using Magma

[Reinhard Handl]

Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> This is just a brief note to let you know I am using Magma as a backend for
> an education application of interactive exercise for primary schools. Magma
> is used to record all the student achievements. It is still in active
> development stage and stuff can be look at http://www.istoa.net (only in
> French but Google will translate it easily in English). Nothing usable for
> end users.
> 
> The OO nature of the Magma persistency is very important as it greatly
> enhance the abstraction level of the persisted data (no flat data but
> living instances). Basicly I record in Magma the exercice instances of the
> student (and some more), but also EventRecord so the whole student activity
> can be replayed. The OO level just greatly help to persist a wide range of
> exercices instance without to worry about the specific interactive nature
> of the exercices (the benefice is huge)
> 
> Part of the application is also using Seaside so the teacher can
> review the student achievement. In the Seaside application a squeak plugin
> with Magma is used to replay the student activity directly from the
> browser.
> 
> All in all, Magma is nice, but I fell that ODB require more carefull
> design compare to RDB. So more attention is required but the reward is
> hudge ;-)
> 
> Hilaire Fernandes


congratulations, magnifique!

rfh