The next meeting of the Ottawa Smalltalk Users Group will be:

GLASS - Transparent Persistence for Seaside

James Foster (GemStone)

Lone Star Cafe, 780 Baseline Rd., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Feb 5, 2008 at 7:00pm (dinner at 6:00pm)

While the Seaside framework elegantly addresses HTML generation and application flow-of-control issues, it still leaves challenges for the developer--including persistence, multi-user coordination, and scaling. With typical solutions (including object-relational mapping, external files, and multiple images) the "pure objects" experience of Smalltalk is compromised. In this presentation we will demonstrate GLASS (GemStone, Linux, Apache, Seaside, and Smalltalk), a stack (analogous to LAMP) that provides a robust environment for deploying sophisticated, dynamic web applications that can scale.

GLASS runs on GemStone/S 64 Bit, a Smalltalk application server and database, whose Web Edition is available for free--even for commercial use. Copies of the software will be available at the meeting.

James Foster is QA Lead on the Smalltalk Engineering Team at GemStone Systems, Inc.

NOTE: A bunch of us will be having dinner at Lone Star before the meeting. Dinner will start at 6:00. If you want to join us, please let me know so I can give Lone Star a count. Please RSVP to david@simberon.com if you plan to attend. I need to let Lone Star know how many people will be coming to the meeting.