[Seaside] Some questions about Seaside architecture

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Tue Dec 13 07:41:52 CET 2005


On 12-Dec-05, at 10:36 PM, Lukas Renggli wrote:
>
>>>>      * Are Seaside sessions serializable? Are closures  
>>>> serializable in
>>>> Smalltalk?
>>>
>>> No. And it is certainly not easy to do, because a closure might
>>> reference the whole image; however if somebody is willing to invest
>>> time and/or money this could be possible. In Smalltalk one can do
>>> everything ;-)
>>
>>  I think serialization is quite crucial for fail-over clustering and
>> long-term sessions, isn't it? For instance, Java Servlet API allows
>> session serialization.
>
> I agree that this would be nice. As Avi mentioned, the easiest thing
> to do right now is to save the whole object memory.
Hmm, how about using the ImageSegment stuff? It's sort of saving the  
whole image but with blocks to stop you saving the whole image. If  
you see what I mean. I haven't done a lot with them but some  
experiments for loading fonts during the exobox project showed it to  
be really fast.


tim
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