Posted by
David Gorisek-5 on
Mar 15, 2005; 8:54pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Is-dolphin-dying-tp3373403p3373428.html
Christopher J. Demers wrote:
> "mario bancos" <
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>>Ok. But don't you think when it arrives it will be too late. Now
>>Dolphin XP doesn't have any official Web Framework besides some
>>goodie you can find ported to, or ready to port. Dolphin XP (5.0) is 3
>>years old (if I'm not wrong), now we are in 5.1.4 but this is only
>
>
> Too late for whom? I don't think that a large percentage of Dolphin users
> are running it on web servers or intend to do so. It would seem to me that
> there are already other Smalltalks in more dominant positions in those
> areas. I see Dolphin as a really excellent environment for writing
> stand-alone or client programs.
>
We are running multiple web server applications developed in Dolphin
Smalltalk. Everything is 100% Dolphin Smalltalk code (altough we use a
dialect portability layer just in case so that we could move to other
Smalltalk anytime). When I say everything I mean everything, starting
from the web server up to the business domain and persistency code. You
can even download an example of Dolphin web app - WikiDoc server - from
our wiki at
http://wiki.gorisek.com.
Speaking for myself I miss none of the things you've mentioned. If there
is something missing I can usually write it in Smalltalk in less time
than it would take me just studying the documentation for some Java/EJB
app server. Also, frameworks are a very little part of any big
application and writing web frameworks isn't really a rocket science.
The frameworks usually just grow along with the app in the direction you
need them to grow.
Best regards,
David Gorisek
http://www.gorisek.com