[Glass] loading seaside and zinc

[Johan Brichau]

Mariano,

Yes, if you start an adaptor directly from gemtools, it does not return and when an error happens, the debugger pops up but the adaptor is stopped.
If you use the WAGemStoneRunSeasideGems, what actually happens is that the adaptor is started in another gem (vm). You can start/stop that gem using the menu items in gemtools (or the command-line scripts, which are actually invoked by the menu items).

So... that is indeed expected and should solve that 'problem'.

Ok, I am loading Zinc in an extent as I write this to experiment too but it's getting late on this side of the ocean so I might get back only tomorrow.

Johan

On 14 Nov 2013, at 22:06, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Johan Brichau <johan at yesplan.be> wrote:
> Mariano,
> 
> Yes, we also use Swazoo when Gemstone is running on our development machine. I would never use it for production (rather use FastCGI behind nginx) but for development setups, it does the job.
> 
> Mind that we start it as follows:
> 
> WAGemStoneRunSeasideGems default
>         name: 'Swazoo';
>         adaptorClass: WAGsSwazooAdaptor;
>         ports: #(8383).
> WAGemStoneRunSeasideGems restartGems.
> 
> 
> Cool. I will try with that and come back once I have experimented a bit. 
>  
> Running the other snippet below works but we also got strange behavior when using that. Now, that also dates back to the time we started with Gemstone, but I seem to remember we noted that using the following snippet to start swazoo from gemtools was not a reliable way to run the app.
> 
> WAGsSwazooAdaptor startOn: 8383.
> 
> Besides that, how are you starting the Zinc adaptor?
> 
> (WAGsZincAdaptor port: 8888) start.
>  
> I would want to quickly setup an extent here with a Zinc server so I can check out what the problems are. Since a lot of people are interested, it's worth diving into.
> 
> 
> What I did is I loaded latest GLASS and Metacello and then I did:
> 
>   Metacello new
>           baseline: 'Zinc';
>           repository: 'github://glassdb/zinc:gemstone3.1/repository';
>           load: 'Tests'.
>         Metacello new
>           configuration: 'Seaside3';
>           repository:
>               'http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/Seaside/MetacelloConfigurations/main';
>           version: '3.0.9';
>           load: #('Core' 'Zinc-Seaside') 
> 
> 
> But one of my problems with Zinc might be the "expected" behavior in GemStone. I paste what I have asked today in another thread:
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> 
> 
> Another question....maybe weird.... when I launch zinc like this: 
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> (WAGsZincAdaptor port: 8888) start.
> 
> I do it as a "do it" in the GemClient workspace. When I do that, the UI is not responsive anymore and the gemstone cursor appears. It only goes away when I manually interrupt it of i a debugger comes. When that happens... the zinc server is down!!  So I have to re-start zinc after each debug? I can imagine that maybe this is because Zinc was started from a Gem or something in my GemClient and when I interrupt that I might be kick off or something and cleans what I did...
> 
> So I wonder, is this the correct way to run the web adaptor?  Or I have to run the adaptor inside a transaction (so that I could remain after):
> 
> MCPlatformSupport commitOnAlmostOutOfMemoryDuring: [	
> 
> (WAGsZincAdaptor port: 8888) start.
> 
> ]
> 
> 
>  
> Johan
> 
> On 14 Nov 2013, at 21:45, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am starting to use Zinc-Seasider (which I guess is under what you mention as "server functionality") and I've been having some problems. They could be because I am still learning GemStone or becuase there is indeed something wrong.
> > So...I want to test with another seaside adaptor to see if there is a different. My GemStone is still running locally because I am still porting my app there. So...besides Zinc, which is the easiest web adaptor to use with GemStone? Also, if you have some doc on how to use it, I would be very happy. I would like to avoid any none-smalltalk web server for the moment....(unless the conf files were very easy)... so I guess the only option left is WAGsSwazooAdaptor ?
> 
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