2004: The Year of The Web Continuation
It seems that since Ovidiu’s presentation about Cocoon’s Flowscript, people have been picking up on the idea of continuations for the web. I’ve spotted this post over at manageability.org outlining some continuations-base frameworks for the web. There’s a comment attached to the article saying that the continuation ID must be passed through session, which is 100% wrong. Typically in Cocoon, it is passed through the URL, which is obscenely easy to setup with the sitemap and a matcher.
It appears that there is something called Seaside which is a Smalltalk contunuation framework, as well as something called Borges for Ruby. There is also a bunch of links that point to other continuations-based frameworks. Yes, Cocoon is listed.
2004 is going to be the year of the continuation for the web. I’ll also be curious to see what other neat ideas come out of these projects, and how Cocoon can benefit from ideas in other projects.