[ANN] Swazoo 2.1 web server released

Dear Smalltalkers,

New Swazoo 2.1 is released, with an easier startup as a main new
feature. Now you can start simply by:

     SwazooServer startOn: somePort

and Swazoo will start listening on all IP interfaces on your machine. It
will also ignore host in web requests. This is very handy for running
Swazoo behind load balancers.

This version is also much improved in terms of serving directly to the
wild wild Internet.

It is available here:

   * VisualWorks: in public Store: Swazoo 2.1, also as a parcel
          on forthcoming Cincom CD

See http://www.swazoo.org for more.

Swazoo can be now used as a web server for two web frameworks:

   * Aida/Web: On Squeak and VisualWorks: load version 5.4 or later
   * Seaside 2.8, 2.9: On Squeak load from Universes
        (Web development beta): Seaside-Adapters-Swazoo

For instance, on Damien's squeak-web you can now run both web frameworks
side by side:

   SwazooServer demoStart then open http://localhost:8888
   SwazooSeaside startOn: 8088 then open http://localhost:8088/seaside


Best regards
Janko Mivšek
Maintainer of Swazoo

On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:15:53 +0100
Janko Mivšek <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Swazoo can be now used as a web server for two web frameworks:
>
>    * Aida/Web: On Squeak and VisualWorks: load version 5.4 or later
>    * Seaside 2.8, 2.9: On Squeak load from Universes
> (Web development beta): Seaside-Adapters-Swazoo

This begs for running a benchmark between the "officially supported"
Seaside/OpenTalk and Seaside/Swazoo. Any takers with a litte bit of
free time?

s.

Hi Stefan,

Stefan Schmiedl wrote:

>> Swazoo can be now used as a web server for two web frameworks:
>>
>>    * Aida/Web: On Squeak and VisualWorks: load version 5.4 or later
>>    * Seaside 2.8, 2.9: On Squeak load from Universes
>> (Web development beta): Seaside-Adapters-Swazoo
>
> This begs for running a benchmark between the "officially supported"
> Seaside/OpenTalk and Seaside/Swazoo. Any takers with a litte bit of
> free time?

First thing to do on VW right now is to port Phillipe's SwazooSeaside
adapter from Squeak, so that Swazoo 2.1 can be run with Seaside on VW at
all. Any takers for that?

Best regards
Janko

--
Janko Mivšek
AIDA/Web
Smalltalk Web Application Server
http://www.aidaweb.si

I have an application with runs fine on Windows that I'm porting to
Linux. One of my calls to read an external file using the dllcc
interface works fine on windows but on linux returns a Unhandled
Exception: exception occured (#11 3011236663). I scanned the doc and
in the DLLandCCConnectGuide.doc Chapter B, there is a table of error
codes that says the error codes are platform dependent but that for
windows an error code of 11 is ERROR_BAD_FORMAT. I grepped the header
files on the linux box but haven't found 11 as a error code anywhere.

Does the 11 mean that the C code is returning a bad format?

Thanks,
Jim

Jim,

Most likely the C code is actually crashing possibly due to an incorrect
argument (like uninitialized memory in one of the arguments, or one of
the arguments in the C call prototype in Smalltalk being defined as void
* rather than a proper type - a bad side effect of the header file
parser in DLLCC), but the exception handling on Linux sometimes returns
this kind of error instead of a core dump. Most of the times I see such
errors on Linux, a retrying the same C call does actually result in a
core dump (which is often easier to analyze.

I hope this helps,

Nick

Jim Harsh wrote: