Re: One Thought about what Web 2.0 Means

2006-08-14 Thread Ian Joyner
So we'll just toss (I almost said 'chuck') out all our hardware because the Web now runs magically on the ether. I get uneasy when people use the word 'legacy' because it has become a coded word for replacing tried-and-true technology that has become reliable over a long period of time with

Re: Marketing WO

2006-08-14 Thread Ulrich Köster
Me too :-) Uli Am 14.08.2006 um 18:54 schrieb Alan Ward: On Aug 13, 2006, at 2:57 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: P.S. One final thought. Given that Apple is deprecating the tools, anyone want to guess how many WO developers at Apple use Xcode for WebObjects? ;-) I do ;-) Alan __

Re: secureWrapper, appendToResponse blueprint / sample code needed...

2006-08-14 Thread Mac Campbell
SOLVED Thanks Chuck! And yes I am a bit of hack... I have been holding off buying any books, due to the feeling that alot of the Apple documentation is confusing and hard to follow due to the changes between 5.2 to 5.3 and the integration into xCode, and I kind of get the feeling that older

Re: WebObjects Foundation

2006-08-14 Thread Joshua Archer
Sounds great, count me in. On Aug 14, 2006, at 10:44 PM, Pascal Robert wrote: Ok, let's start talking about a WebObjects Foundation (or Alliance, or whatever). Why do we need such a thing ? The Foundation will be responsible to market WO, collecting money to help speed up the developme

WebObjects Foundation

2006-08-14 Thread Pascal Robert
Ok, let's start talking about a WebObjects Foundation (or Alliance, or whatever). Why do we need such a thing ? The Foundation will be responsible to market WO, collecting money to help speed up the development of open source tools (Entity Modeler, etc.) and to have an unified voice to

Re: Validation Exception

2006-08-14 Thread Chuck Hill
Hi Marcos, I am still trying to recover from the flood of messages while I was at WWDC... On Aug 10, 2006, at 11:43 AM, Marcos Trejo Munguia wrote: Hello Chuck, I was finally able to print the contents of ec.insertedObjects(), and here is what I've found: Complete Transaction Item: {v

Re: One Thought about what Web 2.0 Means

2006-08-14 Thread Alan Ward
Um, yes. But what does it mean to "modify" a resource? Isn't this basically a huge oversimplification of reality? It's basically saying all "resources" can be created foo = new WOComponent(); delivered foo.appendToResponse(); modified... that's where I'm stru

One Thought about what Web 2.0 Means

2006-08-14 Thread Chuck Hill
Kind of an interesting article from a friend of mine. I have not read all of it or thought about it too deeply, but I thought it may interest others so I am passing it on. Alex is, FWIW, a RoR fanatic. :-P Chuck Begin forwarded message: From: Alex Bunardzic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:

Re: Generics and WO

2006-08-14 Thread Ian Joyner
Reading up on this a bit more, I note that generics are implemented, not by changing the JVM, but by 'type erasure'. The upside of this is that programs using genericity are able to run on older JVMs and you still get compiler checks and are able to cast your casts to the wind. Downside tho

Re: Tutorial project

2006-08-14 Thread Kieran Kelleher
I can verify that ScreenRecord app works fine (under Rosetta) on intel MacBook Pro OS X 10.4.5-10.4.6. I've used it without problems. http://www.miensoftware.com/screenrecord.html Kieran On Aug 14, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Mike Schrag wrote: http://shinywhitebox.com/home/home.html is one th

Re: Time out!

2006-08-14 Thread Chuck Hill
On Aug 14, 2006, at 5:21 PM, Joe Little wrote: On 8/14/06, RedBugz Software <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I believe the Spindle Eclipse plugin for Tapestry allows for these separated files. I may be naive, but are there that many technical hurdles to allowing in addition or as a replacement

Re: Re: Time out!

2006-08-14 Thread Joe Little
On 8/14/06, RedBugz Software <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/14/06, Chuck Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 14, 2006, at 9:25 AM, Alan Ward wrote: > > > > > Mixing wod definitions in with html is simply rude :-) It makes > > refactoring even more of a pain than it already > > is (with

Re: Time out!

2006-08-14 Thread Mike Schrag
Yeah that's the one ... ms On Aug 14, 2006, at 6:09 PM, RedBugz Software wrote: On 8/14/06, Mike Schrag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not simplistic thinking at all, however, where things break down is that it's perfectly valid WO to put a tag INSIDE another html tag (it looks kind of funk

Re: Time out!

2006-08-14 Thread RedBugz Software
On 8/14/06, Mike Schrag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not simplistic thinking at all, however, where things break down is that it's perfectly valid WO to put a tag INSIDE another html tag (it looks kind of funky, and i suspect people who use that feel a little dirty inside, but nevertheless ...

Re: Time out!

2006-08-14 Thread John Larson
For example: other content --becomes-- > other content <%name="myName"%>other content<%/%> --becomes--> name="myName">other content On Aug 14, 2006, at 4:04 PM, John Larson wrote: I guess what I'm proposing is NOT changing the tag, but inserting the WO component in between the tags.

Re: Time out!

2006-08-14 Thread John Larson
I guess what I'm proposing is NOT changing the tag, but inserting the WO component in between the tags. I mentioned the <% %> tags as I brainstormed about the case when you wouldn't want tags around the component (i.e. WOConditional). The idiom would become that the containing component w

Re: Time out!

2006-08-14 Thread apl
Note that WOBuilder (or at least in the past ... haven't tried recently) complains that the html is invalid if you put a WO tag inside an html one... ...but not if you don't put speech marks around the 'name' attribute. :-) I only use this for changing class names on TR's I swear. chee

Re: Time out!

2006-08-14 Thread Anjo Krank
You have some misconception here: the div tag will get *changed* into the component in question. So if you need a div, your component would need to contain one otherwise it will be gone. Which in fact is some serious caution note: CSS styling can handle span span ol li { } If your code woul

Re: Time out!

2006-08-14 Thread Anjo Krank
I don't really agree with most of the proposed changes (bindings inline, yeech!), but the -> or might actually be useful for us. In particular, we could use the WST because IIRC, the main problem was that they choke on webobjects tags without some huge patch... so you would morph the t

Re: Eclipse startup speed

2006-08-14 Thread Anjo Krank
If your *really*, *really* needed that *and* minded the switch workspace times, you might as well start a few instances of Eclipse... but frankly, I have a hard time believing that you'd ever need to "switch" on a regular basis. So I'd like to hear more of this use case to maybe give better

Re: Time out!

2006-08-14 Thread John Larson
I was just about to sit down and suggest the same thing.  :-)As for a validating parser regarding the tag inside a tag problem, I think we'd have to think about what's going on there.  I used to do this to get resource urls into tags, then got out of it because I realized what a mess it created.  P

Re: Time out!

2006-08-14 Thread Mike Schrag
To do any level of meaningful refactoring, etc, you would have to have an AST-style model behind the files anyway, in which case writing out either format is not that big of a deal. Also, once there is a proper WO-compatible HTML parser (maybe actually using WOParser) as part of said tool,

Re: Time out!

2006-08-14 Thread Thomas
Perhaps we could have it both ways? If we had a tool that converted between the two-file and one-file forms (possibly using XSLT), you could at least keep the run-time generation and development-time editing as separate issues. After that you could add a second parser so that either form co

Re: Time out!

2006-08-14 Thread Ken Anderson
Yes... we know !On Aug 14, 2006, at 3:47 PM, Alan Ward wrote:I haven't noticed that recently... Oh wait I haven't used WOBuilder since 2001 ;-)On Aug 14, 2006, at 1:32 PM, Jonny Meijer wrote:Note that WOBuilder (or at least in the past ... haven't tried recently) complains that the html is

Re: Time out!

2006-08-14 Thread Alan Ward
I haven't noticed that recently... Oh wait I haven't used WOBuilder since 2001 ;-)On Aug 14, 2006, at 1:32 PM, Jonny Meijer wrote:Note that WOBuilder (or at least in the past ... haven't tried recently) complains that the html is invalid if you put a WO tag inside an html one...JonnyOn Aug 14,

Re: Eclipse startup speed

2006-08-14 Thread Mike Schrag
Ah, OK, so I think I misinterpreted Alan's original post to mean that he HAD to restart to switch branches, when I think he meant it like what you're saying, where it's just easier to maintain a separate project/workspace for each branch = effectively a restart (not that he's doing the equi

Re: Time out!

2006-08-14 Thread Jonny Meijer
Note that WOBuilder (or at least in the past ... haven't tried recently) complains that the html is invalid if you put a WO tag inside an html one...JonnyOn Aug 14, 2006, at 3:29 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:Not simplistic thinking at all, however, where things break down is that it's perfectly valid WO t

Re: Time out!

2006-08-14 Thread Chuck Hill
On Aug 14, 2006, at 12:29 PM, Mike Schrag wrote: Not simplistic thinking at all, however, where things break down is that it's perfectly valid WO to put a tag INSIDE another html tag (it looks kind of funky, and i suspect people who use that feel a little dirty inside, but nevertheless ...

Re: Time out!

2006-08-14 Thread Mike Schrag
Not simplistic thinking at all, however, where things break down is that it's perfectly valid WO to put a tag INSIDE another html tag (it looks kind of funky, and i suspect people who use that feel a little dirty inside, but nevertheless ...) so i don't /believe/ you could ever make that play nicel

Re: Time out!

2006-08-14 Thread RedBugz Software
On 8/14/06, Mike Schrag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If it's going to be an Eclipse-based tool, my preferred route wouldbe to propose an addition to the browser API that supports DOMaccess, at which point we can do all kinds of fancy things withoutrequiring our files to be in any particular format. m

Re: Time out!

2006-08-14 Thread RedBugz Software
On 8/14/06, Chuck Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Aug 14, 2006, at 9:25 AM, Alan Ward wrote:>> Mixing wod definitions in with html is simply rude :-) It makes> refactoring even more of a pain than it already> is (with KVC) as now you have another set of files in which > references may be found.I

Re: Marketing WO

2006-08-14 Thread King Chung Huang
I use Xcode for WO development and prefer it simply because I also do Cocoa and other C-based projects so I like to stay in one IDE. Sure, Xcode doesn't exactly support Java like it does C/Obj-C, but being able to stay in one consistent environment is valuable to me. King Chung Huang On A

Eclipse startup speed

2006-08-14 Thread Andrus Adamchik
On Aug 14, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Mike Schrag wrote: I only just started using the SVN plugins for Eclipse w/ WOLips, so i can't speak to them, but at least with the CVS plugins I could freely change branches on a project without a restart ... Anyone happen to know if this is true of the SVN pl

Re: Marketing WO

2006-08-14 Thread Dov Rosenberg
When Eclipse released the the 3M2 version for intel Macs the startup performance improved about 1000%. I'm not sure about anyone else I can't even think original thoughts in the 2-3 seconds launch time difference between xcode and Eclipse. I wish that were the bottleneck of my day. Dov Rosenberg

Re: Re(2): Getting mad with NSNumber data type...

2006-08-14 Thread Chuck Hill
On Aug 14, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Mike Bobkiewicz wrote: Hi Chuck, Take a look at Value Type on this page: http://developer.apple.com/ documentation/WebObjects/UsingEOModeler/4WorkingWithAttributes/ chapter_4_section_3.html You are probably missing d--java.lang.Double Though I STRONGLY recommen

Re: Webobjects-dev Digest, Vol 3, Issue 524

2006-08-14 Thread Chuck Hill
On Aug 14, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Marc Oesch wrote: PPS: What happened to the second book in Chuck Hill's signature :-) ? There is probably a rather limited market for a book on deprecated tools. :-) Need to have a heart to heart with our publisher. Chuck -- Practical WebObjects - for

Re: Marketing WO

2006-08-14 Thread Mike Schrag
I only just started using the SVN plugins for Eclipse w/ WOLips, so i can't speak to them, but at least with the CVS plugins I could freely change branches on a project without a restart ... Anyone happen to know if this is true of the SVN plugins in Eclipse as well? That would be a bit of

Re: Marketing WO

2006-08-14 Thread Alan Ward
Hah... I'm even less likely to use Windows than I am to fire up WOBuilder. Take your tongue out of your cheek Chuck! :-) Alan On Aug 14, 2006, at 12:37 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: On Aug 14, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Alan Ward wrote: I wouldn't describe myself as a "hard core XCode fan"... I simp

Re: Marketing WO

2006-08-14 Thread Chuck Hill
On Aug 14, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Alan Ward wrote: I wouldn't describe myself as a "hard core XCode fan"... I simply won't switch to any java IDE that makes me wait 3 minutes at startup before letting me do what I started it to do :-) That is true. If you are on Windows like Alan is and ha

Re: Marketing WO

2006-08-14 Thread Kieran Kelleher
Hi Alan, Do many (most or least even?) of the WO engineers at Apple use Eclipse/WOLips? Regards, Kieran On Aug 14, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Alan Ward wrote: I wouldn't describe myself as a "hard core XCode fan"... I simply won't switch to any java IDE that makes me wait 3 minutes at startup be

Re: Marketing WO

2006-08-14 Thread Alan Ward
Yeah yeah... but I need a *lot* of projects open when I work and I often have to switch svn branches (which can only really be reliably achieved with a restart of the IDE). Alan On Aug 14, 2006, at 12:23 PM, Anjo Krank wrote: Am 14.08.2006 um 20:11 schrieb Alan Ward: I wouldn't describe

Re: Marketing WO

2006-08-14 Thread Anjo Krank
Am 14.08.2006 um 20:11 schrieb Alan Ward: I wouldn't describe myself as a "hard core XCode fan"... I simply won't switch to any java IDE that makes me wait 3 minutes at startup before letting me do what I started it to do :-) Given that I for my part re-start Eclipse about as often as OSX,

Re: Marketing WO

2006-08-14 Thread Mike Schrag
I actually just did this timing comparison at WWDC -- on a MBP, Xcode takes about 1-2 seconds to open a single project and be up-and- running and Eclipse takes about 4-5 seconds to be up-and-running with a SINGLE project in it (these are both "second start" times). The typical usage of Ecli

Re: Marketing WO

2006-08-14 Thread Alan Ward
I wouldn't describe myself as a "hard core XCode fan"... I simply won't switch to any java IDE that makes me wait 3 minutes at startup before letting me do what I started it to do :-) Alan On Aug 14, 2006, at 12:09 PM, Anjo Krank wrote: Oh yes. The number of hard core XCode fans will cert

Re: Marketing WO

2006-08-14 Thread Anjo Krank
Oh yes. The number of hard core XCode fans will certainly stay the same. Cheers, Anjo Am 14.08.2006 um 19:28 schrieb Ken Anderson: I bet not for long!! :) On Aug 14, 2006, at 12:54 PM, Alan Ward wrote: On Aug 13, 2006, at 2:57 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: P.S. One final thought. Given that App

Re: secureWrapper, appendToResponse blueprint / sample code needed...

2006-08-14 Thread Anjo Krank
A way simpler solution is to make a page wrapper for all your components (which you should have anyway to get uniform header and footers), wrap the component content in a conditional bound to session.isLoggedIn and put the login form into another conditional with session.isLoggedIn negated.

Re: Webobjects-dev Digest, Vol 3, Issue 524

2006-08-14 Thread Marc Oesch
> Perhaps some of the Apple WO staff could determine how much of the > information announced today at WWDC can be shared with the other list > members? Someone asked this in the WebObjects Lab today. He was told a public statement is coming next week or the week after. Given the number of post

Re(2): Getting mad with NSNumber data type...

2006-08-14 Thread Mike Bobkiewicz
Hi Chuck, >Take a look at Value Type on this page: http://developer.apple.com/ >documentation/WebObjects/UsingEOModeler/4WorkingWithAttributes/ >chapter_4_section_3.html > >You are probably missing >d--java.lang.Double > >Though I STRONGLY recommend >B--java.math.BigDecimal > >Doubles are not ac

stuck on a WO island...

2006-08-14 Thread james o
i've been stuck on my WO developer island for a while now and would like to reach out to other developers that might be interested in contributing and benefiting from the use of some of my WO projects. in time, i would like to release the code as open source and we can benefit as consultan

Re: Marketing WO

2006-08-14 Thread Alan Ward
Dunno, I haven't fired up WOBuilder since about 2001 (prefer to edit html & wod by hand)... so who knows maybe I'll be the contrarian. Alan On Aug 14, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Ken Anderson wrote: I bet not for long!! :) On Aug 14, 2006, at 12:54 PM, Alan Ward wrote: On Aug 13, 2006, at 2

Re: Marketing WO

2006-08-14 Thread Ken Anderson
I bet not for long!! :) On Aug 14, 2006, at 12:54 PM, Alan Ward wrote: On Aug 13, 2006, at 2:57 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: P.S. One final thought. Given that Apple is deprecating the tools, anyone want to guess how many WO developers at Apple use Xcode for WebObjects? ;-) I do ;-) Alan

Re: secureWrapper, appendToResponse blueprint / sample code needed...

2006-08-14 Thread Chuck Hill
Hi, On Aug 13, 2006, at 9:58 PM, Mac Campbell wrote: I am new to WebObjects and wanted to ask you all for some help... there are several threads about login / security but I am not getting it... please help if you can! Ok, so from what I have seen, I think the best way to implement and

Re: Time out!

2006-08-14 Thread Mike Schrag
If it's going to be an Eclipse-based tool, my preferred route would be to propose an addition to the browser API that supports DOM access, at which point we can do all kinds of fancy things without requiring our files to be in any particular format. ms On Aug 14, 2006, at 12:57 PM, Chuck H

Re: Marketing WO

2006-08-14 Thread Pierce T. Wetter III
On Aug 13, 2006, at 9:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierce, I agree with just about everything you (and others) have said today about the need to build a strong community. And, lest anyone forget, I did start this thread by asking what you all would want to see Apple doing and then poin

Re: Tutorial

2006-08-14 Thread Marc Oesch
Hello, If you can live with Windows for once [sorry :)] This one is really good, especially the export capabilities for tutorials including Flash: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/publish.asp Marc ___ Do not post

Re: Time out!

2006-08-14 Thread Chuck Hill
On Aug 14, 2006, at 9:25 AM, Alan Ward wrote: Mixing wod definitions in with html is simply rude :-) It makes refactoring even more of a pain than it already is (with KVC) as now you have another set of files in which references may be found. I am not so fond of it myself. I have a numb

Re: looking for PA ...

2006-08-14 Thread Gavin Eadie
At 4:47 PM +0200 8/14/06, Anjo Krank wrote: IIRC, he's given me the ok to put it in Wonder a lng time ago. Never got around to do it, though. ... OK, Anjo. I'll send you the latest version which completes the ("make a framework of this" exercise left to the reader), and fixes a few bugs

Re: Marketing WO

2006-08-14 Thread Alan Ward
On Aug 13, 2006, at 2:57 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: P.S. One final thought. Given that Apple is deprecating the tools, anyone want to guess how many WO developers at Apple use Xcode for WebObjects? ;-) I do ;-) Alan ___ Do not post admin requests

Re: Getting mad with NSNumber data type...

2006-08-14 Thread Chuck Hill
Take a look at Value Type on this page: http://developer.apple.com/ documentation/WebObjects/UsingEOModeler/4WorkingWithAttributes/ chapter_4_section_3.html You are probably missing d—java.lang.Double Though I STRONGLY recommend B—java.math.BigDecimal Doubles are not accurate enough and prone

Re: Time out!

2006-08-14 Thread Alan Ward
Mixing wod definitions in with html is simply rude :-) It makes refactoring even more of a pain than it alreadyis (with KVC) as now you have another set of files in which references may be found.AlanOn Aug 12, 2006, at 3:17 PM, Anjo Krank wrote:Am 12.08.2006 um 23:03 schrieb Chuck Hill: An import p

Re: Tutorial project

2006-08-14 Thread Mike Schrag
http://shinywhitebox.com/home/home.html is one that works on Intel. It's not quite as nice as Snapz but if you need Intel support, there's not a lot of choice. ms On Aug 14, 2006, at 12:13 PM, David Holt wrote: Hi Janine, Snapz pro w/ movies is excellent for PowerPC mac. It is not comp

Re: Tutorial project

2006-08-14 Thread David Holt
Hi Janine, Snapz pro w/ movies is excellent for PowerPC mac. It is not compatible with IntelMac yet. http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/ $69 with movies. For an example of what can be done using Snapz take a look at: http://rentzsch.com/webobjects/wo5in15 http://rentzsch.com/li

Getting mad with NSNumber data type...

2006-08-14 Thread Mike Bobkiewicz
Hi, after some years away from WO development a project brings me back to it. I´m working on a OS X Tiger, XCode 2.4 and MySQL 5 environment. Mastering the first normal problems I´m now at a point of no go: I´ve some fields in my database of type double. After setting the typ for both internal and

Re: looking for PA ...

2006-08-14 Thread Anjo Krank
Am 14.08.2006 um 15:10 schrieb Gavin Eadie: I wonder if anyone on this list knows how to get in contact with PA (last seen on the Java list in June at [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I have cleaned up his file system EO adapter and before re- releasing it, I wanted to be sure that was OK with the orig

Re: looking for PA ...

2006-08-14 Thread Marc Oesch
I wonder if anyone on this list knows how to get in contact with PA Did you have other e-mail addresses to reach him ? I tried contacting him with a link to your post. Petite Abeille also might be interested in *heated* discussions on WO and toolset future given the news from last week. I just

looking for PA ...

2006-08-14 Thread Gavin Eadie
I wonder if anyone on this list knows how to get in contact with PA (last seen on the Java list in June at [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I have cleaned up his file system EO adapter and before re-releasing it, I wanted to be sure that was OK with the original author ... Gavin ___

Re: using webobjects for the first time

2006-08-14 Thread Ken Anderson
Brett, If the model is in a framework, it should not exist at all in the .woa directory. I suggest removing it from the project completely and rebuilding everything before proceeding. Ken On Aug 14, 2006, at 3:07 AM, Fleetwood, Brett (DCS) wrote: Sorry Jake, I hadn't finished before it

Re: WO Builder, Marketing etc...

2006-08-14 Thread Markus Ruggiero
On 13.08.2006, at 02:40, Thomas wrote:There has been so much bashing of WOBuilder and XCode lately, and so little discussion of PROJECT productivity (as opposed to Java productivity) that I feel the need to add my own opinion in support of Andrew.[...snip...]The point I am trying to make is that WO

RE: using webobjects for the first time

2006-08-14 Thread Fleetwood, Brett (DCS)
Sorry Jake, I hadn't finished before it got sent off. ...as I was saying the IDcards application imports the IntranetFramework.jar which holds the visitor, employee, person and item classes. I put a new field on the form in IDCards (which originally didn't compile when I had the old version of In