Improve the Suixo full stack Seaside framework. Features should be usable as independent components as well as in the framework. Examples of features are:
- Adding an OODB based persistence layer
- Building a PDF rendering canvas for Seaside, using css for layout (larger scope)
- Building a reading / writing library for one of several document formats (i.e. Excel, ODF)
- Building a domain specific language for (object) reporting
- Adding persistence infrastructure for a document management system (distributed storage) (i.e. CloudDB, MongoDB)
- Implementing a Naked Objects style UI (see www.jmatter.org)
Technical details
Context
Suixo is an open source Smalltalk Seaside application framework used to build a.o. a vertical market solution for healthcare. The healthcare solution is currently used daily by about 80 users. Suixo is an application level framework and currently features:
- Workflow engine
- Generic party model (company / person)
- Role based access control
- Time tracking
- Content management system
Used technology
Suixo provides a full-stack solution. It uses a.o. the following technologies:
- Pharo (virtual machine)
- Seaside (web framework)
- Glorp (ORM)
- Postgres (persistence)
- Scriptaculous ui (Ajax components)
- ShoreComponents (widgets)
- Mold (meta model)
- Graphviz (workflow visualisation)
- Flotr (graphics)
- Soap (webservices)
Goal
To increase the applicability of the Smalltalk stack.
Benefits to the Student
- Experience in extending existing frameworks
- Exposure to high level frameworks
- Designing large and complex applications
- Working in an agile environment
Benefits to the Community
Make Pharo/Seaside a more appealing open source environment for the development of enterprise applications:
- Better accessability of application level reusable functionality
- Richer Seaside environment
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