[Seaside] REST and Seaside

[Cees de Groot]

On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 08:58:37 -0700, Nevin Pratt <nevin at bountifulbaby.com>  
wrote:
> Well, the site has increased in popularity to the point where the  
> traffic appears to be a serious problem for Seaside.

I've been thinking for some time that it should be possible, somehow, to  
merge HttpView and Seaside into a 'seamless' web application. HttpView  
could do REST-style 'static' stuff, Seaside would pick up where more  
interaction is needed. Both support essentially the same style of HTML  
generation, so that shouldn't be a large chasm to cross.

For example, a Wiki would use HV to display pages, as soon as you press  
the Edit button you go into a Seaside session (of course, the trick is  
that the next time you press the Edit button, you may want to go into the  
*same* Seaside session - stuff like that needs to be checked when  
integrating them). This is a very simple example, but I think it's one of  
the things necessary to optimize things. Kicking off the whole Seaside  
machinery for essentially static pages is just a bit too much, I think.

Just a ramble, shoot at it as you like :)