Hi,

I am happy to announce the first public release of the Iliad web framework
(http://iliad.bioskop.fr).

Iliad features:

• standalone stateful widgets
• nice urls with a simple routing system
• simple API
• easy to setup and deploy (no complicated configuration step)
• javascript layer to update widgets using AJAX. If javascript is not enabled,

the behaviour remains the same by making normal requests.

You can download it from the svn repository:

svn co http://bioskop.fr/svn/gst/iliad/tags/0.6.0

In the previous part, I explained the basic concepts behind Iliad Applications and Widgets, through the simple counter example. This part will show how to use Magritte to automatically build views and editors with data validation.

Iliad comes with several examples: the seaside-like counter, a simple blog using Magritte, and a todo list application.

I'll try to explain the basics of Iliad through those examples. I will start with the counter example because it is the simplest one and it will look familiar to Seaside users.

In the following it is assumed that Iliad is correctly installed.

Elements and Widgets

To use Iliad, you need to understand two important parts of the framework: Widgets and Elements.

A new lightweight web framework for GNU Smalltalk named Iliad is available for download.

svn co http://bioskop.fr/svn/gst/iliad/trunk iliad

We're working on this framework since a few months now, and we just wanted to share the code with others.

For our personal needs, we wanted to have the following features in the framework:

• standalone stateful widgets
• REST-like applications
• simple API
• easy to setup and deploy (no complicated configuration step)