[Seaside] Headless seaside

[Avi Bryant]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Chris Double wrote:

> What are the options for running seaside in a headless Squeak. How do you
> maintain/update/modify a seaside application running without the GUI?

A few of the tools I've used:

- WAPackagePanel lets you load code in with DVS over the web; I'll put
out a similar tool for Monticello.

- WABrowser lets you modify code directly; useful for small fixes.

- I have an REPL package on SqueakMap that lets you telnet into Squeak
and get a workspace to evaluate DoIts in.

- Nebraska is a Squeak-specific VNC-like system; if you leave a Nebraska
server running on your headless server, you can connect any other Squeak
image to it to make it "headful" again.

- There's VNC itself.

- The OSProcess package lets you "decapitate" and "recapitate" Squeak onto
any X server; it would be trivial to build a web interface around this.
However, Squeak over remote X is sloooow.

- The screenshot example that comes with Seaside is a poor-man's VNC using
image-maps that's surprisingly effective.

If you want any more info on one of these in particular, let me know.

Cheers,
Avi