Hi, At PharoConf Nick and Esteban talked about three very cool additions to Pier: 1: Nick showed PierAdmin. You probably heard about this, but when you see it running, it's pretty impressive. You get it by loading in a Pharo 1.3 or 1.4 image: Gofer new renggli: 'pier3addons'; package: 'ConfigurationOfPierAddons'; load. 2: But, the coolest thing is the little addition that Nick created to seamlessly port a Pier 1/2 to a Pier 3. It's called Pier-Exporter-Code (also in pier3addons). I tried it on an older Pier 2 installation I had and it just worked. 3: Esteban showed Voyage, the Magma support for Magritte and Pier. The cool demo he showed went like this: he added the magma persistency, he copied the image manually and spawned it on another port than the original one, and then he showed how both were running in the same time on the same data source. It again, just worked. Essentially, using this, you can scale Pier through multiple images out of the box. Very cool. The code is here: http://ss3.gemstone.com/ss/Voyage.html Cheers, Doru -- www.tudorgirba.com "Don't give to get. Just give." _______________________________________________ Magritte, Pier and Related Tools ... https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/smallwiki