installation on server

hello,

i'm new to pier and seaside. the wiki and seaside looks great. what i find really painful is the way you install and run seaside and pier in squeak. how do i easily install pier on a server in a shell (without a GUI)?


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> i'm new to pier and seaside. the wiki and seaside looks great. what  
> i find really painful is the way you install and run seaside and  
> pier in squeak.

Painful? There is a one-click installer on SqueakMap that provides  
automatically loads all the requirements to run Pier. I will soon  
provide a similar one-click installation for Seaside, as discussed at  
Smalltalk Solutions, unfortunately that had to wait because I was  
busy finishing my Master Thesis.

> how do i easily install pier on a server in a shell (without a GUI)?

You copy a ready image, that you created on a desktop machine, to the  
server. This is what we are doing for most of our applications.

The nature of Smalltalk allows one to interact, e.g. update code, fix  
problems, load plugins, with the application while it is running.  
There is usually no need to have a down-time or to setup a second  
server to take over while doing maintenance work. It is possible to  
run Squeak without a graphical user interface though, however this  
will take away a lot of power from the environment. If you server  
doesn't allow to have a graphical user interface it is also possible  
to install a VNC server in your image so you can interact like that.

Cheers,
Lukas

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>> unfortunately that had to wait because I was  busy finishing my  
>> Master Thesis.
>>
> did you ;)  ?
>
> If possible can you send me a copy ?  even of a draft version

The final version of my Master Thesis is available to download from  
the SCG repository. It covers Magritte and Pier and should give some  
insight and additional documentation about the use and the  
implementation of those frameworks. It can be downloaded from:

<http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/cgi-bin/oobib.cgi?
query=Reng06a&abstract=yes>

Abstract:

Developing applications that end users can customize is a challenge,  
since end users are domain experts but still have concrete  
requirements. In this master thesis we present how we used a meta-
driven approach to support the end user customization of Web  
applications. We present Magritte, a recursive meta-data meta-model  
integrated into the Smalltalk reflective meta-model. The adaptive  
model of Magritte enables to not only describe existing classes but  
also let end users build their own meta-models on the fly. Further on  
we describe how meta-interpreters automatically build views, reports,  
validating editors and persistency mechanisms.

As a complete example of how we applied a meta-model to a Web  
application we present Pier, the second version of a fully object-
oriented implementation of a content management system and Wiki  
engine. Pier is implemented with objects from the top to the bottom  
and is designed to be customizable to accommodate new needs. The  
integration of a powerful meta-description layer makes it a breeze to  
extend the running system with new functionality without having to  
patch the core engine.

We describe the lessons learned from using the Magritte meta-model to  
build applications. Both projects described in this thesis are open  
source and can be downloaded from the Web site of the author.

Have fun,
Lukas

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> <http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/cgi-bin/oobib.cgi?
> query=Reng06a&abstract=yes>

If the link does not work try this one:

        <http://tinyurl.com/e7b3b>

Lukas

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Congratulations man, I look forward to reading it, I'm sure it'll help the
community a lot.
    -- Ramon Leon


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