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<br><div><div>On Aug 13, 2015, at 11:42 AM, Chris Muller <<a href="mailto:ma.chris.m@gmail.com">ma.chris.m@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I am pleased to announce version 1.5 of Magma for Squeak 5, now<br>available on SqueakMap. Magma allows multiple Squeak images to<br>collaborate on a single, large object model, with the robustness and<br>control expected from a database. It offers the most transparent db<br>access possible for Smalltalk, affording the user the ability to<br>develop complex, performant designs, iteratively, on-the-fly.<br><br>It has been designed for "continuous flow" development, the way<br>Smalltalkers like and expect to work. For example, I could have<br>connections open to 3 separate databases, open transactions in any of<br>them, and having restructured a class hierarchy in the model, and<br>stepping through the debugger when that "final boarding call" for my<br>flight is announced.<br><br>Thanks to the image, this scenario has never been a problem for<br>Smalltalkers and Magma is deliberate to ensure this flow is<br>maintained. Once at 10K feet, I can resume stepping through that same<br>debugger within 5 seconds of restarting the image, DB connections<br>intact, commit my transactions when I'm ready, done. Magma handles<br>every aspect of that use-case correctly even in multi-user<br>environments, and has so many safety and integrity features, it is the<br>safest way to develop and keep a model in Squeak.<br><br>This release coincides with the release of Squeak 5, and has many<br>improvements and fixes over Magma 1.4. Detailed notes about these<br>improvements are available at <a href="http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6209">http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6209</a>.<br><br> - Chris<br>_______________________________________________<br>Magma mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Magma@lists.squeakfoundation.org">Magma@lists.squeakfoundation.org</a><br>http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/magma<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>