Hello Brad In this context it is probably useful to (re-)read the thesis by Lukas Rengli
http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/masters/Reng06a.pdf <citation page=3> As a complete example of how we applied a meta-model to a Web application we present Pier, the second version of a fully object-oriented implementation of a content management system and Wiki engine. .... We describe the lessons learned from using the Magritte meta-model to build applications. </citation> It contains a lot of good insights - see 'Lessons learned'. The writing style might be terse and abstract but there is also a Pharo book about Magritte. In a pristine Pharo image, as soon as you start writing your own class definitions to model your domain you are actually creating a Domain Specific Language (DSL). This language describes your application domain. If we talk about web applications, you describe in an abstract way the domain objects and GUI elements. The challenge is that this DSL language is easy to write, understand, teach and maintain. >From the model (part of it most often is a tree of objects) you have visitor walking through the object net and creating reports. It is easy to quickly come up with something which works but often it is idiosyncratic, thus difficult to understand for other people. Maybe Peter can share some insights about his experience writing a model to then generate a Ruby-on-Rails-app. Pillar is another example of such an approach. You create a document object model and then have various exporter objects to generate slides, web pages and very nice books. It is accessible code and you can learn from it. The emphasis is on static content but some dynamic content seems to be possible as well. Regards Hannes On 9/2/17, Brad Selfridge <bsselfri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Really good work. I'm impressed. Pharo is really gaining some cutting edge > options. I would like to know a lot more about your framework. Thanks for > the effort. > > > > ----- > Brad Selfridge > -- > Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html > >
