[Seaside] Seaside/Squeak/Linux: service with GUI as needed
Lukas Renggli
renggli at gmail.com
Sat Jul 12 19:52:46 UTC 2008
> (1) Pharo image(s) run as service(s); the computer is (ab)used pretty
> much as an appliance; technicians are told to plug in the network cable,
> then turn on the box, and if all is well, it "just works".
That's already possible.
> (2) most (Smalltalk) configuration tasks happen via a Seaside interface.
What configuration tasks? If these are not yet available an interface
could certainly be built. OmniBrowser and the XUL integration is also
a possibility here.
> (3) I realize that I can edit code through Seaside's halos, but I will
> sometimes want to interact graphically with the Squeak image; it will be
> doing other things beyond serving Seaside pages. I envision (please
> tell me if there are better ways) making a remote desktop (or similar)
> connection to the server, stopping the offending service, and restarting
> it as a desktop user to debug, save the changed image, exit, restart the
> service, and log out.
OmniBrowser.
> Is this a SSH/VNC task, or is there a better way. Some things I have
> read appear to suggest that one can simply use VNC to attach to the
> running Squeak service and a GUI instantly appears??? That seems too
> slick to expect it to work.
RemoteFrameBuffer is perfect to do that. Like this you start you image
headless on the server, and use a VNC client to connect to the screen
from anywhere. I use that on all my servers.
> Do things change if one replaces Linux with Windows? I am trying to
> escape, but it will take some time to complete the transfer.
Linux is great for deployment. A long time ago I did some deployment
on Windows servers. What's inside the image (e.g. RemoteFrameBuffer)
works equally well. The host OS is not so cool ...
Cheers,
Lukas
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