Squeak's web server

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Feb 8 05:52:53 UTC 2000


Bijan Parsia <bparsia at email.unc.edu> wrote:
> At 6:33 PM -0500 2/7/00, Alan Kay wrote:
> 
> >Stefan --
> >
> >We are a few epsilon away from "Squeaklets" using Dan's and Ted's image
> >segment swapping, and Andreas' and John's browser plugins. This is going to
> >be really cool (really soon, we hope).
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Alan
> 
> Er.. I think "Squeaklets" as described above are more like "applets" (i.e.,
> client side programs). "Servlets" are server side programs.
> 
> I should point out the WikiWorks for VisualWorks has a servlet mechanism
> based on packages. One should be able to do something similar with image
> segments.
> 


Comanche and PWS are quite nice servlet frameworks.  It's just that in
Smalltalk this stuff is so easy, that no one seems to bother bragging
about it nor even making up a new buzzword.



Lex





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