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[S8] Eden Framework

Description

The Edent is an unique framework of S8 Smalltalk.
It is a model of the singular point in time of a S8 platform where we jump in a new execution environment from another S8 system.
The source environment is a S8 system running in a platform and producing a dump of initial model for booting the system in a new execution environment (with another native language).
The Jump is an important feature of S8 systems to avoid confinement of your objects.

Main classes / roles

The abstract generator of boot contents is implemented by BootSector.
The expression used to generate boot contents is
(BootSector for: #lang) contents
where lang is the compact name of the native language to jump into.
Read more on jumping here and on boot structure here

Tutorials & Developer's Guide