Reef: AJAX the way it should be 
- 1. Reef AJAX the way it should be
- 2. Who am I?
- 3. Who am I? • The guy who builds a VM, and everybody hates because their plugins are not ready
- 4. Who am I? • The guy who builds a VM, and everybody hates because their plugins are not ready • He also does some Seaside time to time
- 5. Last year... • Reef presentation was a big success (thanks!) • Some of you tried it and provide valuable feedback...
- 6. But not everybody present here today was present last year... So... what’s Reef?
- 8. Nesting problem Functionality is distributed all around the component (and could be worse) • renderContentOn: sends renderRegionsOn: sends renderCitiesOn:
- 9. Nesting problem Real problem is we are still programing in HTML (yes, with smalltalk “flavour”, but still HTML)
- 10. Reef summary AJAX/Javascript component framework for Seaside.
- 11. Reef summary Models HTML/Javascript components into Smalltalk objects
- 12. Reef summary Hides communication complexity
- 14. Reef architecture Dispatcher
- 15. A trade-off (yep, there is always one) An extra request (not always, but enough to be taken into account)
- 16. Communication • We handle interactions through callbacks, just as Seaside • But all callbacks should be threat the same • AJAX calls • regular requests • client behavior
- 17. Example
- 18. Coming to your image... this year!
- 19. What changed (for good) Better integration with jQuery: skins, widget box
- 20. What changed (for good) An important optimization: #asReefTriggerCallback
- 21. What changed (for good) More widgets (but still just those I need)
- 22. What’s new (and testing) Composites
- 23. What’s new (and testing) • Magritte-Reef • Brings web 2.0 to Magritte-Seaside • Ease cool effects: • tooltips, masks, etc. • Complex behaviors
- 24. What remains (and it shouldn’t) • Documentation is still poor • Reef protocol names are still ugly • Testing is still non-existent
- 25. The heresy revisited (we need to be heretics again)
- 26. you know:
- 27. why not:
- 28. Future work • Still experimenting with optimizations around the dispatcher • Rename all protocols into something really meaningful • Write more documentation (like finalize the chapter for PBE2) • More feedback?