[Seaside] Remote Development with Squeak/Seaside

Avi Bryant avi.bryant at gmail.com
Thu Dec 9 21:55:13 CET 2004


On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 15:33:12 -0500, John Pierce
<john.raymond.pierce at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yup, although I'd rather not bother with an offline image - just clone
> > the current running one to a new URL, load the new code in, test it,
> > and then flip the switch.  But we don't quite have the infratstructure
> > for that yet.
> 
> ASP.NET has a pretty nifty way of letting you copy in the new DLLs for
> your web application and since they can live side-by-side, existing
> users of the web application run their course with the old version of
> the program and new users immediately pick up the new version of the
> web site.  Very cool to hot swap a web application without shuting
> down the server or switching machines.  I supposed that would be quite
> a feat to pull off in Seaside with the current class-based global
> namespace.  Just hate letting MS one-up us.

Well, that's exactly what we accomplish with multiple images +
mod_rewrite.  We should write something up about exactly what we do...
(I can remember pushing Julian about this a while back but not sure
exactly what he posted).


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