Documentation

Getting started

• Tutorial - to understand how to create web applications with Aida and start programming on your own, here is a short tutorial which guides you through the main steps in creating an on-line address book.
• ToDo example, a description with screenshots and code snippets of fully ajaxified HTML5 realtime web app.
• Frequently Asked Questions

General

• Introduction - one page general overview of design goals, architecture, experiences and fields of usage
• Architecture - a few diagrams to show main architecture and design ideas behind Aida/Web

Guides

• Administrator's Guide - how to start and stop server or sites, adding a new site, registering new service and soon more
• Programmer's Guide - how to program your web applications, work in progress!
  
• Class Reference - description of packages, soon most important classes
• Advanced features - method images, automatic and preferred urls, wiki format, web clipboard, many action methods, versioned objects, page headers, response headers, content type and more
• AJAX and Comet - about Ajax integration, usage, components, and about Comet real-time refreshing of page content
• TinyMCE Rich text editor installation and configuration guide
• Scribo CMS start guide

• Component and plugin guides
  • AidaCharts
• Dialect Specific Guides
  • Running on Gemstone GLASS

Other

• Articles and presentations on different conferences about Aida/Web and related themes

• Logo and its applications, including presentation template, t-shirt design, logo in vector format and more
• Wikipedia article

Benchmarks

• Aida/Web vs. Seaside, Aida 5.4 on Swazoo 2.0 (Squeak and VW) comparing to Seaside 2.8 on Opentalk HTTP on VW7.6, with WAPT tool. This benchmark was done as an addition to Jim Robertson benchmark here.
• Swazoo vs. Apache benckmarks, using Aida/Web static file serving and method resources (from memory serving)
• Memory consumption and throughput

Development notes

• Release Notes
• Method libraries

• Mobile support
• Camera/getUserMedia API and WebRTC support
• Smalltalk websites
• Domain modeling guidelines
• 6.5 Release Notes

• WebDAV support
• REST Support
• OpenID Single Sign-On and OAuth authorization support
• 6.4 Release Notes

• Party Role framework explained-
• Description of ToDo example as part of comparison of web frameworks
• 6.3 Release Notes
• Amber (Smalltalk over JavaScript) support in Aida
• From web app to Android app
• Mentions and appeals

• 6.2 Release Notes
• HTML5 Support
• Off-line web apps
• WebSocket support , an instant Comet for real-time web apps
• JSON support

• Request routing

• 6.1 Release Notes
• PDF conversion
• Form validation support
• LDAP support

• ESUG09 tutorial
• How to build Scribo website
• Smalltalk code portal

• Tree-like control flow
• Translation support
• Caching

• Migration to 6.0
• Running Aida/Web on Gemstone GLASS
• Coding conventions
• Joomla template support
• Multilingual resources
• Stackable windows
• Offray

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