Kilauea Magma Server Manager
Just a quick note–the details are in the squeak-dev posting–Kilauea just got another little component. It’s an image that runs a Magma server at startup and provides a small management interface using HttpView2 (HV). I used HV because it was sufficient for the job and is quite a bit smaller and less intrusive than Seaside–properties I think that are important when mucking around in servers that don’t have webserving as their primary purpose. As usual: good to have alternatives.
Now that I can assume that people will be able to setup a separate Magma server when running Kilauea I can strip the Magma server code from my development images, making them a bit simpler. And they’ll probably startup and shutdown a bit quicker as well (that was my main reason for making this, but I still need to verify that…). So now “all” I have to do is to make some of the major design decisions for Kilauea and then implement it (the most major decision being whether I’ll require domain model objects to be subclassed from framework objects or not. Or maybe I should hold out and wait for Traits…)
In the mean time, the Magma server is happily running as an NT Service on my laptop–built-in functionality of the VM.
Stumble it!
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December 11th, 2005 at 1:38 pm
Update: turns out I made a small judgement error on how the URL’s would behave on Posixy platforms. I’ll bring out a fixed version RSN, for the time being this is a Windoze-only excercise.
I’ll now go sit in a corner and be ashamed of myself….
December 11th, 2005 at 2:16 pm
Update: a new image is now available on my images download page. Still not tested under Linux, but the path issue should be gone. Also added a save button so that you can snapshot a running configuration which is then restored after a restart.