[Glass] Basic questions regarding GemBuilder for Smalltalk, GemTools, and tODE

[Joachim Tuchel]

Mariano,

I guess you just nailed down a list of questions that many others have 
about Gemstone/S and GLASS. While I think I know some of the answers to 
your questions, I hope for someone with more experience to answer them. 
Some of the questions are also open for me ;-)

So thanks for bringing these up and thanks in advance for qualified 
answers ;-)

Joachim


Am 30.09.13 22:48, schrieb Mariano Martinez Peck:
> Hi guys,
>
> I am evaluating GemStone for a client and I want to give it a try. I 
> have a very high level idea of GemStone but I never use it for real. 
> The application I may need to run in GemStone is a Seaside app 3.0 + 
> Magritte3.
>
> Something that confuses me a lot if all these pieces that seem somehow 
> related: GemBuilder for Smalltalk, GemTools, and tODE. And I have a 
> few questions related to these. Thanks in advance for any help you can 
> give me.
>
> From what I understand, I do need a kind of "GemBuilder for Smalltalk" 
> in order to connect my client Smalltalk (Pharo in my case) to 
> GemStone. But there isn't any GemBuilder for Pharo (only VW and VA). I 
> also thought part of GemBuilder was to map certain kernel classes of 
> the client language to GemStone, to retrieve objects from GemStone 
> into my smalltalk client vm..etc.
>
> So..I guess GemTools is a subset of an equivalent "GemBuilder for 
> Pharo"? What is its relation to the GemBuilder?
> From what I understand, GemTools offers me some tools to connect to a 
> GemStone server, load code, execute some code on the server, etc etc 
> etc. I think I can do more or less the same with Topaz as well. That 
> means that GemBuilder is optional and I could use Topaz only. If I use 
> Topaz directly, it means that I don't need any GemBuilder at all for 
> Pharo? If true, how then it happens that "mapping of certain kernel 
> classes" that I read somewhere?  in other word, why would I not need a 
> GemBuilder for Pharo but do need it for VW and VA? Just because there 
> is no UI and all we have is seaside running? And if I run Seaside in 
> VW then I don't need GemBuilder for VW?
>
> If I don't need GemBuilder at all, how can I know which 
> classes/methods of Pharo can I use and which ones I cannot?
>
> I noticed the GemTools is based on a very very old Pharo image. I 
> guess this is not a very big problem because I would use that image 
> only to load my code into GemStone and maybe for other small issues. 
> Still, I will continue developing my app in Pharo 2.0 and I will keep 
> having my ConfigurationOfXXX with the proper load for GemStone. Right?
>
> Anyway...now how is tODE related to GemTools? What does tODE help me 
> regarding GemStone? Can I use it already or should I still with 
> GemTools/Topaz for the moment? I searched  in Gemtalk Systems and I 
> found nothing.
>
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> -- 
> Mariano
> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
>
>
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