May I ask who has used this combination and how good that has worked? What about ease of deployment also? Especially interesting would be in conjunction with either Seaside or Aida/Web...
It's a pitty that no-one else has commented. Thanks anyway
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A:
Not yet using in production (still waiting for an appropriate business case), but I ported Aida/Web to Gemstone GLASS to be prepared, for next reasons:
- smooth migration to Gemstone GLASS, when you need it (when your 'image as a database' becomes too small and you need a bigger database, or when you need a full proof database with transactions and full ACID,
- possibility to develop in Squeak/Pharo then deploy/upgrade the Gemstone GLASS, without much if any differences between those two Smalltalks anymore,
- practically unlimited scalability in performance, database size and complexity.
We are otherwise using Gemstone for years for our Aida/Web based web applications, just that they are done in VisualWorks. I can say just good words about Gemstone after all those years, both from reliability, features and specially support viewpoint.
Janko Mivšek
2010-06-18 10:29:07