Hi!

The last one and a half week, I was playing with seaside, but now, Nicolas Petton introduced a new web-development framework which is called Iliad http://smalltalk.gnu.org/blog/nico/iliad-new-lightweight-web-framework-gnu-smalltalk that seems so interesting, that I decided to try it out for a new web application, which is currently in a planned status.

And because the documentation and howtos for Iliad is currently not widely accessible, I decided to write a bit about my expiriences.

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)