XML to Objects in Cincom Smalltalk
There's been a lot of work on the XML to Object front in the latest versions of VisualWorks - there's a nice set of wizards that make it a lot easier to define and deploy a web services application. Our lead WS* developer, Tamara Kogan, asked me to post a tutorial presentation on this stuff - here it is. A small note - you will probably get some kind of warning about using IE when you browse that - I tested it with Firefox, and it works fine. I'd push up something in PDF, but I have no tools for that.
Update: As pointed out in the comments, many of the slides have issues in FireFox (and other browsers other than IE I'm sure, not to mention other platforms). I saved the slides as html from PowerPoint, and it looks like ActiveX is required. I'll happily make these available in a more easily accessible format if someone can tell me how to do that from the PowerPoint slides I have.
Update 2: See this post for the pdf versions I posted
Comments
XML to Objects in Cincom Smalltalk
[ Kim Lokøy] February 1, 2005 12:15:37.512
Comment by Kim Lokøy
It's good to see someones working on this.
Firefox doesn't work
[Tom K] February 1, 2005 13:22:06.580
At least here it doesn't. From slide 4 onwards, it's pretty much unreadable, and bears no resemblance to what I see in IE.
It's invalid, that's why it does not work in all browsers
[Bruce Badger] February 1, 2005 17:57:30.478
Well, this might be why it does not work in Firefox (or any other standards-compliant browser I have to hand).
Try OpenOffice.org
[Bruce Badger] February 1, 2005 19:29:37.636
If you load the Microsoft Powerpoint slides into OpenOffice.org you can then save them as PDF or HTML.
Given that it is generally easier to convert from standard formats to proprietary ones, I suggest that you create future presentations using OpenOffice.org, and only translate them to the proprietary Microsoft format if you really have to. Then, making PDF and HTML versions of your slides will be easy.
XML to Objects in Cincom Smalltalk
[ Kim Lokøy] February 2, 2005 4:01:59.216
Comment by Kim Lokøy
Erroneously I put in two dashes, that removed my point in my first comment...
As already said, It's good to see someone working on this. But what made you chose this kind of format for a tutorial? It looks like it's from the 80's, it's not very readable, and it does not work (for me it worked in IE but not in Firefox). But more importantly it looks very unprofessional, and it does not serve your purpose very well... Why not develop you'r existing documentation, or a simple HTML page? Make it simple!
Criticism aside, I'm looking forward to improvement in this area, so keep working on it...
[Ludovic Orban] February 2, 2005 7:36:02.562
This can also help: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/