If you want to use Squeak on the server also, we did exactly what you are
talking about for www.swiki.net.  It would be no problem serve up Squeak
projects to the client in lieu of HTML.  There are likely to be some
benefits in having Squeak running as your client and your server.  Also, I'd
expect the OODB thing to be addressed real soon now.

- Stephen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Kay [mailto:Alan.Kay at disney.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 3:52 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: web application frameworks in Squeak?
>
>
> Check out Squeakland.org. It's still "under construction" but it
> shows how anyone can run any Squeak project through a browser (and
> then escape the browser to full screen) at will. Once in a Squeak
> project you can then fetch other Squeak projects via project links,
> etc.
>
> This bypasses the need to do anything in html.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
> ------
>
>
> At 7:38 PM +0100 5/25/01, John Hinsley wrote:
> >Just some musings. Imagine you want a web site with dynamic content.
> >Ignoring
> >the active server pages route (expensive, slow, closed source) the
> >choices
> >seem to be:
> >
> >Apache (or whatever) + MySQL (or whatever) + PHP. It can be made to work
> >very
> >well and is a widely used and well documented route. Most quibbles about
> >doing
> >it under Linux seem to have been blitzed by the advent of 2.4.
> >
> >Zope + MySQL. Not so well documented (and currently lacking a graphical
> >front
> >end -- I hear one's in the works). I hear tales of blistering
> >performance. The
> >downside is having to learn Python (and, depending on your POV, having
> >to use
> >MySQL).
> >
> >But I wondered, looking through the Sqiki stuff, extrapolating snippets
> >from
> >this list, just what it'd take to do a web application framework in
> >Squeak,
> >perhaps using Comanche as a basis? (It'd be nice to use an OODB, too!)
> >
> >Any thoughts?  Bolot, anyone?
> >
> >Cheers
> >
> >John
> >
> >
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