[Seaside] How to develop and deploy

[James Foster]

Hi Marze,

I'm not familiar with GOODS or with Postgres, so I'm not sure how you  
would create an application that uses those tools. The general  
approach recommended for GemStone/S is to use class (instance)  
variables to keep objects persistent. Start your Seaside application  
in Squeak and just use the image for persistence. When you are ready  
to deploy, just export your application using Monticello and import it  
into GemStone/S using Monticello.

Why would you wait till your site gets bigger to port everything to  
GemStone? Why not start with GemStone? Then you wouldn't have to do  
any object-relational mapping in the first place.

GemStone/S is started by using the command line and you get to a  
Smalltalk interpreter using a command-line tool named Topaz.

By the way, 'Smalltalk' has only one capital letter.

James

On Jun 22, 2008, at 3:32 PM, Marcelino Llano wrote:

> Hello list! this is my first post, sorry if it's something obvious
>
> I've been reading a lot about the platform and I'm missing one thing
>
> When I develop a new app on Seaside and I want to start, let's say  
> with GOODS and Postgres and two images under Squeak, but
> then my site gets bigger and I want to port everything to GemStone,  
> how could I do that? because I read that GemStone is
> the only vendor that supports this kind of migration among SmallTalk  
> VMs multiple forks
>
> And other (simple) thing, could I start an image on my server  
> through the command-line? there's no GUI!
>
> Thanx in advance!
> marze
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