Dear Smalltalkers,

We are happy to announce that AIDA/Web Smalltalk web application server version 6.0 and AIDA/Scribo CMS 1.0 are ready for beta testing on Squeak.

A preconfigured one click experience image is available:

http://bioskop.fr/AIDA6.0-beta1.zip

Aida/Web is a Smalltalk web framework for the component based development of complex web applications. Aida is a mature and proven framework, yet on pair with other modern web frameworks. Aida main characteristics are REST-like, nice and bookmarkable Urls, strong internationalization, seamless integration of Ajax, integrated security with user/group/role management, low memory footprint, ability to serve many web applications and web sites from the same Smalltalk image, reliable serving (with help of Swazoo Smalltalk web server) directly to Internet and more. See http://www.aidaweb.si for additional info.

This version is also the base for AIDA/Scribo, a powerful CMS (Content Management System), with several plugins: wiki, website, forum, blog.

AIDA/Web 6.0 beta release notes

* better scriptaculous integration * improved internationalization support (like full japanese support) * important bug fixes and major refactorings * cross-dialect file support using Sport * LightBox support

AIDA/Scribo 1.0 beta important features

* Multilingual support * Security and access control * Document versioning * Document Locking * Workflow (States during document's life) * Scriblets (Scribo components embeddable into the text)

Best regards,

Janko Mivšek and Nicolas Petton