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WELCOME

This is how the Web works! Be on the web frontiers with Smalltalk, try Aida/Web!

Aida is a Smalltalk web application framework for building complex web applications with latest seamlesly integrated HTML5 technologies for today's real-time web. MVC, REST, Mobile, WebSocket, you name it!

Start with our video tutorials, this is a first one:

FURTHER STEPS

If you are interested, you are encouraged to:

  • look at few screenshots of real Aida web apps,
  • see a live demo of Aida/Web,
  • download and install to run your own Aida/Web server,
  • follow a tutorial to start building your own web applications.
  • join our a community for further help, but also suggestions, advices, contributions in any way ...

NEWS & EVENTS

  • jan12 Aida 6.4 Christmas Edition released Well, Christmas is over but to keep with a tradition here is a new Aida 6.4 on Squeak/Pharo and VisualWorks, as a present for Smalltalk community in New Year

    see release notes

  • aug11 ToDo example now ready As part of comparison of Smalltalk web frameworks we prepared an example of real-time single page web app in Aida

    see detailed description

  • jun11 Comparison of Smalltalk web frameworks To assess Aida strengths and weaknesses we prepared and open it to public a comparison of Aida, Seaside and Iliad web frameworks

    see comparison

  • jun11 Aida presented on OTS11 On this year OTS (Object Technology in Slovenia) we demonstrated the newest web technologies for a real-time web showing by example on Aida

    see the slides (in Slovenian)

Blog aggregator

  • sep2011 "Server-Centric" and "Client-Centric" Web Frameworks

    ...Integration between server-centric and client-centric frameworks will be important in the coming years. Therefore it is great to see that Aida/Web recently announced plans for integrating Jtalk.

    read more

  • sep2011 Ajaxified Seaside Components

    ... Nevertheless, the abstractions for such behavior as implemented by dirty widgets in Illiad and the ajaxified web components in Aida are very useful. Therefore, I decided to have a go at integrating the approach we had implemented for our Yesplan application into Seaside itself, such that an "ajaxified Seaside components" implementation can be shared by different Seaside applications....

    read more

  • jul2011 Runar Jordahl: Comparing Smalltalk Web Frameworks

    ...I have only tried Seaside, choosing that framework since it is the “default” one to use for Smalltalk web development. At least the comparison made me aware of Iliad, and had me rediscover Aida/Web. I will try Aida/Web again...

    read more

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