HttpView2

Summary: A very easy web application framework to build web apps in pure Squeak.
Author: Göran Krampe
Owner: Hannes Hirzel (hjh)
Co-maintainers:

Categories:

SqueakL + MIT - Dual licensed under both SqueakL and MIT. This enables both base Squeak inclusion and 100% reuse. Recommended prior to 4.0.
Squeak3.6 -
Development tools - Add-on development tools for Squeak.
Monticello - A '.mcz' file format for use with Monticello. It is gzipped.
Beta - Useable but still not stable, probably has bugs.
Squeak3.7 - Released 15 Sept 2004.
Squeak - The official distribution of Squeak.
Non official package - Just a package for Squeak, no community guarantees. :)
Squeak3.9 - Released 8 Dec 2006.
Squeak3.8 - Released 25 May 2005.

Homepage: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/HttpView2
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Description:

This is the new HttpView called HttpView2 that is:

Better (refactored, more comments, bug fixes etc)
Adapted to the new KomHttpServer that Stephen Pair maintains.
Works in Squeak 3.6.
Simpler (submits are now buttons, no more HVModule needed etc)
From version 0.94 it now depends on a lower HTMLBuilder layer.

It also includes much better samples and comments and an upcoming article in
both Swedish and English is intended to work as a tutorial.

HttpView is a lightweight web framework based on KomHttpServer. It differs a bit from "classic" such frameworks:

Url resolution:: The url "path" strictly corresponds to a chain of HttpView instances connected together with a parent pointer. The "document" name at the end of the url is matched with a message selector in the HttpView instance.
Page construction: Pages and HTML components are built by "feeding" a builder object - an instance of HVHtmlBuilder - messages from a rather large protocol. The builder has plenty of "smart" messages that makes building pages and Forms a breeze. And it's all in Smalltalk.
Forms handling: The Forms are constructed from instances of classes like HVHtmlForm, HVHtmlInputCheckbox, HVHtmlSelect etc. This means that Forms are built much like you build UIs in Morphic or Java's Swing. When a Form is submitted the values of the fields are easily accessible by sending the message "value" to it

Releases

1-0.93 -
2-0.94 - Quite a lot of changes.
3-0.99 -
4-1.0 -
5-1.01 - Various fixes and additions from working on HomepageBuilder.
6-1.02 -
7-1.1-beta -

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