Hi Bill,
William Stewart wrote:
> Could someone say a couple of sentences or so on the relationship of
> VisualWave and Seaside? I can't find much reference to VisualWave on the
> Cincom site so has it been subsumed? They run a host for Seaside -
> correct?? Does anyone else hosts these server programs? Or is the idea
> one has to run your own server to use them? How sucessful is Seaside?
> Does it deliver to the end user as fast as experience other web server
> technologies? Basically, I would like to get a some overall perspective.
Maybe I can contribute few words because VisualWave came out just at the
same time my Aida/Web was born in 1996, so I obviously followed it even
more carefully. VisualWave was designed to put your GUI apps as easy as
possible to the web, which was quite a common approach at that time. But
it was and still is too narrow for anything else.
As I understand now, VisualWave and Seaside on VW are not related in any
means and I didn't hear that VisualWave will be much developed in the
future.
About hosting web apps, I can say how we host Aida/Web
(
http://www.aidaweb.si) apps. We have a collocated server with one VW
image where currently about 40 websites are hosted. Those are mostly
intranet apps for our customers, but there are also public websites. All
those are Aida/Web websites, using Swazoo Smalltalk web server. No
Apache therefore. All Smalltalk.
Best regards
Janko
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Janko Mivšek
AIDA/Web
Smalltalk Web Application Server
http://www.aidaweb.si
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