[Seaside] Re: Best-practices/ architectural patterns for business apps

[Stefan Krecher]

Stephan,
thank you very much for these detailed Tips - this is extremly helpul!
regards,
Stefan

Am 2. April 2012 23:14 schrieb Stephan Eggermont <stephan at stack.nl>:
> Stefan Krecher wrote:
>>i'd like to know if there are some best-practices/ patterns for
>>seaside application architectures.
>
> - The first thing you need when you start creating production
>  quality code instead of prototypes/spikes, is a CI environment,
>  where you pull code from the open source projects you use
> - Start with categories for domain model, tests and web
> - Don't do the whole architecture up front, drive it from the code
> - Drive the domain model from tests
> - Keep the code well refactored, DRY
> - Create a declarative description of the domain model;
>  Magritte provides a good starting point. You need better
>  descriptions for behavior, relationships, validation.
> - Generate web components by introspection.
> - Use a hexagonal architecture.
> - Persistence is an implementation detail, to be decided on ALAP
> - In the component model of Seaside a component has children;
>  the child does not have an explicit parent (as there might be more
>  than one). The child uses announcements to inform its parent.
> - In development, break up the css into many methods
> - Refactor
> - The reflective capabilities of Smalltalk allow fairly large architectural
>  changes to be made with little effort. Learn how to manipulate your
>  project's source code
> - Development is done in a MOOSE image, so you can visualize
>  the code quality over time.
> - Did I tell you to refactor?
>
> Stephan Eggermont



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