[Nitro] Seaside style call/answer mechanism

[Michael Neumann]

Am 24.11.2005 um 19:21 schrieb George Moschovitis:
>> In Seaside/Wee the whole thing is implemented not by storing URLs,
>> but actually the state of the component as of the time when you call
>> #call.
>
> Can you please explain this in more detail here on the list?

Wee/Seaside is stateful, i.e. components stay in memory in contrast  
to controllers in Nitro/Rails. Each user has it's own components tree  
(yep, components are composites and can form a tree). An action (e.g.  
clicking on a <a href> tag or posting a <form>) will change the state  
of the components. Each action will create a new "page". A page is  
simply a snapshot of the state of the components tree at some time  
and is associated with a unique ID. The URL will always contain the  
page-id of the current page. So theoretically you can say: "Show me  
the page as of two days ago".
The conclusion of all this is, that you can uniquely identify pages  
(and as such actions, too). This makes it a lot easier.

Regards,

   Michael