LiveWeb

An application of the Smalltalk Seaside Framework exploring the power of the XMLHttpRequest callback to develop a live web-based smalltalk workspace, inspector, and browser (and beyond).



This project has several motivations:

• Allow proxiable remote control and management of a Smalltalk server through a web interface (e.g. proxiably via Apache or equiv.)
  
• Explore the limits of possibilities of rich application development in the confines of existing HTML browsers via DHTML, Javascript, and XMLHttp
  
• Accelerate the development of Seaside components to provide an interactive top-level in the Seaside component's native environment (the browser)
  
• Remain compliant with modern browser standards and implementations by keeping to CSS, XHTML, and DOM standards as much as practical
  
• Develop extensions to the Seaside framework to enable a more rich application development to be automatically delivered via the server controls (long term goal)
  

Getting Started

1. Prerequisites: Squeak 3.7 or higher, Monticello, KomHttpServer, Seaside.
   
2. Installation: Setup a Monticello Package in the Monticello Browser and setup a new repository with the following template:
   

   
   
   MCHttpRepository
   
   	location: 'http://squeak.saltypickle.com/LiveWeb'
   
   	user: ''
   
   	password: ''
   
   

   
   
3. Running: Start the web server in a workspace (for instance, "WAKom startOn: 9090"). Now you can now open your web browser to http://localhost:9090/seaside/liveWeb
   

Currently Support Browsers

• FireFox 1.0
  
• Internet Explorer 6.0
  

Detailed Documentation