[Seaside] About Deployment

[David Mitchell]

Someone else made a run at this and called it phaux. It is written in
PHP and inspired by Seaside.
http://ev0l.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/phaux-is-phreaking-phat/

There hasn't been much activity, maybe you could pick it up. Of
course, if you read his blog, you'll hear the familiar story of
Smalltalk ruining him for other languages:
http://ev0l.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/smalltalk-has-spoiled-me/



On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Frederic Pluquet <fpluquet at ulb.ac.be> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I use Seaside for a lot of personal development and I love its rapidity of
> development! But for real deployment there is a big disadvantage. At my
> knowledge, I have only two solutions to deploy an application: have an own
> server (what I do for the moment) or put my image on seasidehosting.
>
> So I have a simple idea: it will be really cool if I can develop in
> Smalltalk with Seaside and I deploy the code in Php/MySql to put it in any
> common server.
>
> I think this idea is not so crazy. I know there is a world between Smalltalk
> and Php (I know both well) but a way to implement this idea is perhaps the
> next one. The first step: the classes (and methods) used in Smalltalk must
> be translated into Php (some papers show that it is possible into Java for
> example). The second step are about the alive objects. Because in Smalltalk
> the alive objects are kept in memory (in the image), a possible solution is
> to create each object in Php and save them in a MySql database to retrieve
> them through each page.
>
> An important point is that Php is a dynamic typed language. The convertion
> will be so easier than Java.
>
> So my question is the next one to the Seaside developers: what are the big
> obstacles to achieve this goal ?
>
> Some questions in my mind: What about continuations ? What about object
> reflectivity ?
>
> Fréd
> ----
> Frédéric Pluquet
> Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
> Assistant
> http://www.ulb.ac.be/di/fpluquet
>
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