[Seaside] [ANN] ShoreComponents 3 - back on Seaside

[Ron Teitelbaum]

This looks like really great news!  Thanks for doing it I'm sure it will be
very useful and worthwhile.

Ron Teitelbaum

> -----Original Message-----
> From: seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:seaside-
> bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Pavel Krivanek
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 1:09 PM
> To: The Squeak Enterprise Aubergines Server - general discussion.
> Subject: [Seaside] [ANN] ShoreComponents 3 - back on Seaside
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> till now ShoreComponents used some special technological properties
> that helped to solve some general problems of Seaside applications.
> Unfortunatelly this properties cased that it was not easy to use
> ShoreComponents with standard Seaside applications. It was possible to
> use Seaside components in applications based on ShoreComponents but it
> was almost impossible to use components from ShoreComponents package
> as supplement of other components. So it was not possible to use it
> for cooperation with Magritte etc.
> 
> The third major version of ShoreComponents makes big step in this area
> and I hope that it will be better and better.
> 
> Main properies of the next release:
> - there's no base component class. Components are now based on
> standard WAComponent
> - components doesn't require parent reference. They can be created
> with classical "new" constructor
> - dynamic variables are used for navigation in hierarchy of components
> (for specification of target component etc.)
> - static files are now provided by standard FileLibrary
> 
> This is the first alpha version so it's far from perfect. The main
> problem are some form processing issues so some components are not
> working well. Also nested forms problem is not solved now. Only
> platform independent part of ShoreComponents is converted now.
> 
> I hope that you will find it useful and you will find motivation to
> improve and extend this set of components and use it in your
> applications.
> 
> download: http://www.squeaksource.com/ShoreComponents/
> 
> -- Pavel
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