[closer-devel] ContextL in web programming

[Pascal Costanza]

On 27 May 2008, at 01:58, Sohail Somani wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I recall Pascal was interested in Weblocks for some context-oriented  
> programming. Having experience with Weblocks, I think it could  
> definitely use something like ContextL but I don't think Pascal made  
> his code available anywhere.

Indeed. The main reason is that the code is partially covered by an  
NDA. But I have the general permission now to give demos of the  
software. I hope I will be able to do this soon.

However, the combination of Weblocks and ContextL is not along the  
lines of what one would typically expect, but it is rather quite  
different - the context dependency is more in the application logic  
rather than in the presentation.

> But I wonder: how would you incorporate ContextL into web  
> programming? I can definitely think of a couple of places where it  
> would be useful, one being the always present edit/view contexts. I  
> guess my question is whether anyone has done this and can show me an  
> example.

I see uses for adapting a website to the context / preferences of the  
user. I'm still a bit worried about the lack of being able to adapt  
single objects to the context of use, not only complete classes. But  
we have something new, to be presented at DLS 2008, and I think that  
could get us a step closer in that direction...

Sorry, if this is all not of immediate help...


Pascal

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