Smalltalk in The Cloud

All the functionality of Cloudfork-AWS is now also available for VA Smalltalk. With Cloudfork-AWS you can access the Amazon S3, SQS and SimpleDB services from a simple to use Smalltalk interface. The code is hosted at VAStGoodies.com, the SourceForge for VA related projects.

All tests are green!

As you can see all tests pass. Porting from one Smalltalk dialect to another is a tedious job, there are a lot of little differences you have to take care of. For example the asSortedCollection is case insensitive in VA Smalltalk and is case sensitive in Squeak/Pharo. Because of this the AWS signatures were calculated wrong in VA. Also the functionality for parsing xml and using http are completely different. We have isolated all this dialect specific stuff in a separate package/application.

For installation instructions and for reporting issues you can use our project page on Google code: http://code.google.com/p/cloudfork/wiki/InstallingForVASmalltalk

This entry was posted on March 27, 2009 at 21:07 and is filed under Cloudfork. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments.

Tags: s3, simpledb, sqs, vasmalltalk