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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

  • mar12 Aida runs GSoC website We are running this year Smalltalk Google Summer of Code website again, supporting Smalltalk community by automating the GSoC process.

    visit the website

  • feb12 Aida vision and plans What is Aida vision, what are short and long-term plans? (realtime, client apps, cloud, hosting, documentation, REST, HTML5,..)

    read more

  • 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

Blog aggregator

  • feb2011 James Foster: Preparing Smalltalk for Cloud Foundry

    ...For this exercise I have selected AidaWeb 6.4 as the framework and CogVM 3.9 as the runtime, though it should be relatively obvious through the process how to use other frameworks (including Seaside) and other runtimes (including Cincom Smalltalk or VA Smalltalk from Instantiations)....

    read more

  • feb2012 Rober Calco: Vision for Aida

    ...What I like about Aida compared to Seaside is its relative simplicity and portability...It feels to me like Aida doesn't try to reinvent too many wheels, meaning it's a bit more accessible to people coming from, say, Rails, like myself. It has relatively more steak than sizzle, whereas Seaside has relatively more sizzle than steak....

    read more

  • 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

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Aida/Web is a free and opensource software licenced under MIT License.