The next NYC Smalltalk Developer's meeting will be held Thursday January 18
th , at the IBM building on Madison and 57th.

Time: 6:30 to 7:30pm tentative
Topic: Patterns in Othello
Presenter: Thomas Zammikiel


Tom will discuss some patterns used in his ST rendition of the game Othello.
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Time: 7:30 to 8:30pm
Topic: WaveTags Beyond JSPs
Presenter: Charles A. Monteiro/ OCIT

I will be presenting WaveTags an extension to my ST tag framework
(TagWorks) . WaveTags comprise a set of xml based custom tags (a la jsp
spec) which along with extensions to the VisualWave framework/IDE allow for
the design of the user interface to a VisualWave app to be done in standard
html editors and IDE's such as Homesite , Dreamweaver etc. The designer
instead of using the customary html tags for the various form entities specifies
the appropriate custom wave tag.
for example instead of:
<input type="text" name="customerAge" >
use:
<wave:inputField model="customerAge" isReadOnly="true" />

The html document in essence becomes the "windowSpec".

The marriage of custom tags and a rich presentation framework such as
VisualWorks along with the robust web management functionality provided by
VisualWave entail clear advantages over the current JSP/ EJB technologies
available.

If anybody cares to discuss the above assertion please let us know your
thoughts by posting to the thread started in comp.lang.smalltalk with the same
subject line as this post and please do stop by at our meeting January 18th if
in
the NYC area.

thanks
--
Charles
OCIT
Co-Chair
NYC ST Developer's Group