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Dolphinharbor gets a face lift and some long needed attention.
Over the years things fell into a state of decay. We had hardware problems, apache misconfigurations and no one had the spare time to get things back up and running smoothly. Dolphinharbor is now running in a shared hosting environment which means that none of the webservices or experimental servers will be available ... however with the rumored release of Dolphin 6 due, hopefully things will be a bit livelier
With the release of Dolphin 5, dolphinharbor has switched to running a number of Dolphin deployed executables fronted by Apache.
The webservices have been split into groups, and separate executables are running for the SoapBuilders interop services, the Spray samples and hosted webservices, and the client webpages.
Most of the static content is now being served directly by Apache.
A demonstration Swazoo server has been added on port 8000.
In January, dolphinharbor switched port 80 from Swazoo to an Apache server to test FS FastCGI. The Dolphin image was configured as a FastCGI application which diverted requests into a Swazoo Site.
At this time we had 30-35 webservices running in the Dolphin image, and a couple of webpage webservice clients. Most of the static content was still being served by Swazoo via FS FastCGI.
A demonstration FS FastCGI application, deployed as an executable was also installed.
Dolphinharbor started life as a Dolphin Smalltalk Professional 4.03 image running Swazoo on port 80, and a Squeak Swiki running on port 8080.
In June 2001, a Dolphin image was uploaded that contained Swazoo and Spray. A base image was saved so that on start-up, it would look for a script that would install the packages and start a Swazoo server. Over the course of the year, new packages were regularly uploaded and an administration webservice was used to remotely restart the image.
Towards the end of the year VNC was also installed on the machine. Being able to open a Class Browser on the server's image and make tweaks in real time was very useful for testing.
