Hi Apostolis,<div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>I want to create a plugin that would be part of the enviroment of a number of pages.</div>
<div>the plugin wants to know the user that is logged in, the owner of the page that is viewing and the absolute path of the page.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So  to get this i ll put in my component these lines right?</div><div><br></div><div>PRContext user</div><div>PRContext structure owner</div><div>PRContext structure absolutePath</div></blockquote><div>
<br></div><div>If you derive your component from PRWidget rather than WAComponent you have access to #context, see for example PUSecurityWidget </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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I guess that the absolute path is the only way to identfy a page.</div><div><br></div><div>Another problem i have is with persistency..</div><div>I googled and found that lots of people have already talked about it.</div>

<div>For me and i think every new programmer, it is the biggest obstacle for using Pier...</div><div>Pier is very powerfull , easy to use and programm due to its smalltalk foundation. The code is so easily understood and the reusability of the code is phenomenal.</div>

<div><br></div><div>So If this persistency problem is solved with the new programmer in mind, the one that just wants its objects to save, no questions asked, Pier would rock.</div><div><br></div><div>So to use Pier, the only option for me is to go for a non-free DB like gemstoneS. All i have to do is tell Pier to save objects and gemstone will do it automatically without me changing any of the code, right?</div>

<div>Unfortunately at the time of writing i have access to a 32bit CPU so i cant check for myself..</div><div><br></div><div>I know there are other options like magma, but from what i understand you have to understand the underlying structure and i dont want to.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>If you go the Gemstone route, for deployment you can use a free Amazon EC2 micro instance. See: <a href="http://nickager.com/blog/Screencast-creating-a-new-instance-based-on-pre-configured-AMI/">http://nickager.com/blog/Screencast-creating-a-new-instance-based-on-pre-configured-AMI/</a> and <a href="http://nickager.com/blog/Create-a-free-Gemstone-server-in-the-cloud-in-10-minutes/">http://nickager.com/blog/Create-a-free-Gemstone-server-in-the-cloud-in-10-minutes/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Hope this helps</div><div><br></div><div>Nick</div></div></div>