[Seaside] Headless seaside

Stephen Pair stephen at pairhome.net
Fri Aug 8 13:57:45 CEST 2003


Avi Bryant wrote:

>On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Chris Double wrote:
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>>What are the options for running seaside in a headless Squeak. How do you
>>maintain/update/modify a seaside application running without the GUI?
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>A few of the tools I've used:
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>- WAPackagePanel lets you load code in with DVS over the web; I'll put
>out a similar tool for Monticello.
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>- WABrowser lets you modify code directly; useful for small fixes.
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>- I have an REPL package on SqueakMap that lets you telnet into Squeak
>and get a workspace to evaluate DoIts in.
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>- 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.
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>- There's VNC itself.
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>- 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.
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>- 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.
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There is at least one more option:

- VNC + OSProcess...you decapitate and recaptitate Squeak onto a VNC X 
server...works very well remotely and allows you to kill the VNC session 
without killing Squeak

- Stephen



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