On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:48:55 -0700, Marcus Pedersén  
<marcus.pedersen at comhem.se> wrote:

> Hi!
> I have a small application to do for my work and I would realy like to  
> use Squeak instead of Java. But I need a bit of help to start me up. I  
> want to do what java calls servlet, in other words I want an application  
> executing on the server and is displayed in the webbrowser and be able  
> to read and write to files.
> What is this called in squeak?
> Are there any good tutorials on that subject?
> The basic idea and structure in squeak?
>
> Many thanks in advance!
>
> Regards
> Marcus


As far as I know, you cannot, strictly speaking, write a "servlet" in  
Smalltalk. A Java servlet extends a webserver (typically Apache) and is a  
way around the knotty issues of saving state, etc. I think Squeak would  
have to plug in to that same API to satisfy the technical definition of a  
servlet.

As Brad points out, however, Seaside has most (if not all) of the same  
benefits as a servlet, and then some.