Maybe it's too late

2008-05-08 Thread Joshua Paul
I'm blurry-eyed, but it seems that trying to determine if an array of strings contains a certain string is harder than it should be. Am I overlooking something? If not, how should one compare to arrays of strings? -- Josh Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] twitter: joshpaul linkedin: joshpaul

Re: Maybe it's too late

2008-05-08 Thread Daniele Corti
2008/5/8 Joshua Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm blurry-eyed, but it seems that trying to determine if an array of strings contains a certain string is harder than it should be. Am I overlooking something? If not, how should one compare to arrays of strings? NSArray? if so, you have

Re: NSSelectorT - a curiosity

2008-05-08 Thread Galen Rhodes
The Void class came into being to support Reflection. So that you could look for methods whose return type was void. -- Galen Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.photoyoda.com http://www.myspace.com/woexpert On May 7, 2008, at 10:07 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: On May 7, 2008, at 7:01 PM,

Re: Maybe it's too late

2008-05-08 Thread Miguel Arroz
Hi! Yap. containsObject compares objects using equals(), so it should work for Strings. If you are not finding the string with this, it's because it's not on the array. :) Maybe you need to trim() some white spaces? Yours Miguel Arroz On 2008/05/08, at 09:23, Daniele Corti wrote:

Re: Maybe it's too late

2008-05-08 Thread David Avendasora
That and make sure you aren't using contains(Object element) as that is not the same as containsObject(Object object). This bit me a couple times before I quit making that mistake - usually in the wee hours of the morning. Dave On May 8, 2008, at 8:00 AM, Miguel Arroz wrote: Yap.

Re: Maybe it's too late

2008-05-08 Thread Mike Schrag
That and make sure you aren't using contains(Object element) as that is not the same as containsObject(Object object). This bit me a couple times before I quit making that mistake - usually in the wee hours of the morning. In Wonder, these are the same, btw ... ms

Re: Maybe it's too late

2008-05-08 Thread Joshua Paul
Thanks all... it was a matter of upper/lowercase. On May 8, 2008, at 6:10 AM, David Avendasora wrote: That and make sure you aren't using contains(Object element) as that is not the same as containsObject(Object object). This bit me a couple times before I quit making that mistake -

Re: Maybe it's too late

2008-05-08 Thread Daniele Corti
2008/5/8 Joshua Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks all... it was a matter of upper/lowercase. Well, can you insert a toLowerString() while creating the array? if not, you must iterate over the array and check each element after use toLowerCase(). for exaple: NSArray first, second for(int i =

Re: WO Tutorials

2008-05-08 Thread Oliver Scheel
And I thought you have solved the probelms ;-) That is the reason why I had to switch WO development to Mac a couple of months ago, too. Though I am a real Mac user since 10 years, I never developed with WO on a Mac (and never really used Project Builder for WO) ;-) Strange, but true. OK,

Re: NSSelectorT - a curiosity

2008-05-08 Thread Florijan Stamenkovic
Don't know about the looking up part... AFAIK return types are not a part of the method signature in Java, also indicated by Class API, whose getMethod... stuff does not ask for the return type as a parameter... Think that Void class it has more to do with the Metod class'

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread Florijan Stamenkovic
Besides the question below, I came up with another scenario today... While it is true that performance should not be an issue with the records in the inheritance tree, what about relationships? I will have potentially thousands of records that have two mandatory relationships to the leaf

Connection pooling + WebObjects

2008-05-08 Thread Shravan Kumar.M
Hello Group, Can anyone advise me best methodologies/ any open source frameworks that help me implement connection pooling in one of my WebObjects 5.2.4 + Java 1.4.2.* + Oracle 9i application. Also advise pros n cons of Connection Pooling. Thanks in advance. -- Thank You Shravan Kumar. M

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread Florijan Stamenkovic
Ken, Yeah, I was just thinking about that (see my post from a minute ago)... Comments on potential performance issues? F On May 08, 2008, at 10:04, Ken Anderson wrote: If you're only going to fetch on the leaf entities, I would favor horizontal just from an organizational point of view.

Re: NSSelectorT - a curiosity

2008-05-08 Thread Mike Schrag
Don't know about the looking up part... AFAIK return types are not a part of the method signature in Java, also indicated by Class API, whose getMethod... stuff does not ask for the return type as a parameter... Well, it's technically part of the method signature, but it is not required

Re: NSSelectorT - a curiosity

2008-05-08 Thread Galen Rhodes
Well, yea, you can look for methods with a Void return type. You can use Class.getMethods() and then use the Method.getReturnType() on each method returned to find them. Also, as of 1.5 you can get the generic return type too. -- Galen Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.photoyoda.com

Re: Maybe it's too late

2008-05-08 Thread Miguel Arroz
Hi! Ahhh, the morning... don't work in the morning. Really. Nothing good will come out from it. Yours Miguel Arroz On 2008/05/08, at 14:10, David Avendasora wrote: That and make sure you aren't using contains(Object element) as that is not the same as containsObject(Object object).

Re: NSSelectorT - a curiosity

2008-05-08 Thread Galen Rhodes
Yes, Void.class == void.class. http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/java/fclass/ch12_69.htm -- Galen Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.photoyoda.com http://www.myspace.com/woexpert On May 8, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Mike Schrag wrote: Don't know about the looking up part... AFAIK return types are

Whoops sorry...Re: NSSelectorT - a curiosity

2008-05-08 Thread Galen Rhodes
It's actually, according to the site I gave, Void.TYPE == void.class. -- Galen Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.photoyoda.com http://www.myspace.com/woexpert On May 8, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Mike Schrag wrote: Don't know about the looking up part... AFAIK return types are not a part of

Re: Address System using QAS

2008-05-08 Thread Simon McLean
Hi Gino - If you are looking at the UK then I think you need royal mail PAF data. We use Postzon data for geocoding postal codes, but IIRC PAF data converts postcodes to addresses. SImon ps. be warned - it's *very* expensive !! On 7 May 2008, at 14:41, Gino Pacitti wrote: Hi All Just

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread Ken Anderson
If you're only going to fetch on the leaf entities, I would favor horizontal just from an organizational point of view. Remember though, if you have relationships to the root entity (like the inverse of a to-many relationship that all subentities have), you're still going to have extra

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread Ken Anderson
There are a number of issues with prefetching relationships that relate back to an abstract entity. I haven't tried this in a VERY long time, so if I were you, I'd experiment with this before moving ahead with a concrete plan. Bottom line, if you don't need other people to access these

Re: Whoops sorry...Re: NSSelectorT - a curiosity

2008-05-08 Thread Mike Schrag
Yep .. You win the blue ribbon ... void.class == Void.TYPE. That's crazy and magical :) On May 8, 2008, at 10:28 AM, Galen Rhodes wrote: It's actually, according to the site I gave, Void.TYPE == void.class. -- Galen Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.photoyoda.com

Re: Whoops sorry...Re: NSSelectorT - a curiosity

2008-05-08 Thread Galen Rhodes
Yea! I win! Oh... wait... was that sarcasm? Sorry I hate to leave a mystery unsolved. -- Galen Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.photoyoda.com http://www.myspace.com/woexpert On May 8, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Mike Schrag wrote: Yep .. You win the blue ribbon ... void.class == Void.TYPE.

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread Mike Schrag
There are a number of issues with prefetching relationships that relate back to an abstract entity. I haven't tried this in a VERY long time, so if I were you, I'd experiment with this before moving ahead with a concrete plan. Bottom line, if you don't need other people to access these

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread Mike Schrag
There are a number of issues with prefetching relationships that relate back to an abstract entity. I haven't tried this in a VERY long time, so if I were you, I'd experiment with this before moving ahead with a concrete plan. Bottom line, if you don't need other people to access these

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread Kieran Kelleher
15 entities with 30 max records per entity = max 450 records. .. even with 100 attributes this is probably trivial data size, so I would not go out of my way to avoid Single Table inheritance for the sake of avoiding a lot of null fields in the database. If it was me, for such a

Re: Connection pooling + WebObjects

2008-05-08 Thread Kieran Kelleher
Project Wonder has connection pooling see ERXObjectStoreCoordinatorPool On May 8, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Shravan Kumar.M wrote: Hello Group, Can anyone advise me best methodologies/ any open source frameworks that help me implement connection pooling in one of my WebObjects 5.2.4 +

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread Ken Anderson
OK - I'm thinking it's time for me to look at WOnder... :) On May 8, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Mike Schrag wrote: There are a number of issues with prefetching relationships that relate back to an abstract entity. I haven't tried this in a VERY long time, so if I were you, I'd experiment with

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread Florijan Stamenkovic
On May 08, 2008, at 10:28, Ken Anderson wrote: There are a number of issues with prefetching relationships that relate back to an abstract entity. Yay... Is this true also of single-table inheritance? I haven't tried this in a VERY long time, so if I were you, I'd experiment with this

JBoss and WebObject

2008-05-08 Thread Aloke Das
Hello: I created a test application in WebObject where the I need to create ' CORBA object for connection registration and wanted to deploy the webobject application in 'all' server configuration in JBoss 4.2.2 (my application works fine in 'default' configuration), but I can’t run the

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread Mike Schrag
There are a number of issues with prefetching relationships that relate back to an abstract entity. Yay... Is this true also of single-table inheritance? Yes. Just to get it straight, you keep the not-null constraints in the model, but skip them in the db? Can't find docs on this... Yes.

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread Florijan Stamenkovic
On May 08, 2008, at 10:47, Kieran Kelleher wrote: 15 entities with 30 max records per entity = max 450 records. .. even with 100 attributes this is probably trivial data size, so I would not go out of my way to avoid Single Table inheritance for the sake of avoiding a lot of null

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread Florijan Stamenkovic
On May 08, 2008, at 11:27, Mike Schrag wrote: All that matters is that you have some restricting qualifier that specifies how to differentiate the two entities (the value doesn't matter, but you do need some attribute that specifies which one is a SubEntity1 and which one is a

Re: Whoops sorry...Re: NSSelectorT - a curiosity

2008-05-08 Thread Chuck Hill
Still smells like a hack. :-) On May 8, 2008, at 7:33 AM, Mike Schrag wrote: Yep .. You win the blue ribbon ... void.class == Void.TYPE. That's crazy and magical :) On May 8, 2008, at 10:28 AM, Galen Rhodes wrote: It's actually, according to the site I gave, Void.TYPE == void.class.

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread Chuck Hill
On May 8, 2008, at 7:46 AM, Ken Anderson wrote: OK - I'm thinking it's time for me to look at WOnder... :) M, might be a few years overdue on that one. ;-) On May 8, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Mike Schrag wrote: There are a number of issues with prefetching relationships that relate back

Re: Whoops sorry...Re: NSSelectorT - a curiosity

2008-05-08 Thread Galen Rhodes
Are you calling me a hack? Ouch! -- Galen Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.photoyoda.com http://www.myspace.com/woexpert On May 8, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Chuck Hill wrote: Still smells like a hack. :-) On May 8, 2008, at 7:33 AM, Mike Schrag wrote: Yep .. You win the blue ribbon ...

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread David Avendasora
Oh, and BTW if this is Java Client you need to set the restricting qualifier (or type) on both the client AND the server, AND surround the setter with a check for null first, otherwise it causes all sorts of weird unrelated errors when you try to delete an instance of the subclass. This

Re: Whoops sorry...Re: NSSelectorT - a curiosity

2008-05-08 Thread Chuck Hill
ROFL! On May 8, 2008, at 8:59 AM, Galen Rhodes wrote: Are you calling me a hack? Ouch! -- Galen Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.photoyoda.com http://www.myspace.com/woexpert On May 8, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Chuck Hill wrote: Still smells like a hack. :-) On May 8, 2008, at 7:33 AM,

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread Mike Schrag
I did get that... Apple's docs explain it clearly... What I don't get is why they use the integers 2 and 9 in a three entity setup (abstract root + 2 concrete) as qualifier values... Totally arbitrary. I would assume they chose 2 and 9 to make it explicitly appear arbitrary. ms

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread Chuck Hill
On May 8, 2008, at 8:27 AM, Mike Schrag wrote: Just to get it straight, you keep the not-null constraints in the model, but skip them in the db? Can't find docs on this... Yes. Welcome to the awesome docs on inheritance in EOF. They don't document a LOT of stuff. Just try to understand

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread Chuck Hill
On May 8, 2008, at 7:14 AM, Florijan Stamenkovic wrote: Besides the question below, I came up with another scenario today... While it is true that performance should not be an issue with the records in the inheritance tree, what about relationships? I will have potentially thousands of

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread Chuck Hill
On May 8, 2008, at 10:08 AM, David Avendasora wrote: How will it work for Wonder's Partial Entities that are part of a Vertical Inheritance structure on a full moon with Pluto in the third house? Yes. Chuck On May 8, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: On May 8, 2008, at 7:14 AM,

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread Florijan Stamenkovic
On May 08, 2008, at 12:51, Chuck Hill wrote: Besides the question below, I came up with another scenario today... While it is true that performance should not be an issue with the records in the inheritance tree, what about relationships? I will have potentially thousands of records that

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread Hugi Þórðarson
How will it work for Wonder's Partial Entities that are part of a Vertical Inheritance structure on a full moon with Pluto in the third house? Yes. I totally disagree with that! Totally! - hugi // Hugi Thordarson // http://hugi.karlmenn.is/

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread Kieran Kelleher
On May 8, 2008, at 11:29 AM, Florijan Stamenkovic wrote: On May 08, 2008, at 10:47, Kieran Kelleher wrote: 15 entities with 30 max records per entity = max 450 records. .. even with 100 attributes this is probably trivial data size, so I would not go out of my way to avoid Single

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread David Avendasora
How will it work for Wonder's Partial Entities that are part of a Vertical Inheritance structure on a full moon with Pluto in the third house? On May 8, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: On May 8, 2008, at 7:14 AM, Florijan Stamenkovic wrote: Besides the question below, I came up with

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread Chuck Hill
On May 8, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Hugi Þórðarson wrote: How will it work for Wonder's Partial Entities that are part of a Vertical Inheritance structure on a full moon with Pluto in the third house? Yes. I totally disagree with that! Totally! Well, of course it is all different in the

Macros in WO

2008-05-08 Thread Hugi Þórðarson
Where to begin If anyone here has used Confluence, you'll be familiar with its content macros. I love them, and I've been working on integrating them in my WO projects. I'm interested in knowing if someone has actually implemented something like these macros in WO, because I'm having

Re: Macros in WO

2008-05-08 Thread Mike Schrag
But. What I keep thinking is: Hugi, you're doing this the wrong way. A Macro is nothing but a component, arguments are just bindings - and you're reinventing WO-inline syntax in a bad way. My first thought .. I don't see the point? If you're talking about supporting this in dynamic content,

Re: Inheritance...

2008-05-08 Thread Florijan Stamenkovic
Kieran, Thanks for the explanation. I understand what you mean now... It definitely sounds good, though I have still to figure out exactly how I would apply this to my situation. Since among the inheritance types EOF provides single-table seems most applicable to my situation, I might

Re: Macros in WO

2008-05-08 Thread Hugi Þórðarson
Whoops, I forgot to mention that. Yes, the whole point is to support dynamic content. It's a content management system, and none- programmers are using the syntax to do stuff only WO programmers would be able to do otherwise. Like write {km:currentdate} into the content of a web page (a

Re: Macros in WO

2008-05-08 Thread Hugi Þórðarson
For clarification, some code. http://svn.karlmenn.is/Hugi/trunk/src/is/karlmenn/hugi/Application.java user/pw : temp/temp The method handlemacros( WORequest, WOResponse ) is the meat. - hugi // Hugi Thordarson // http://hugi.karlmenn.is/ On 8.5.2008, at 19:11, Hugi Þórðarson wrote:

WOLips deployment problems

2008-05-08 Thread Jaime Magiera
Hello folks, I searched the archives, read the doc (http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WOL/Deploy+a+WO+Application ), and tried both methods of building. The framework it uses it in the correct location. I did permissions 777 everywhere just to be sure. I'm not even getting a

Re: WOLips deployment problems

2008-05-08 Thread Art Isbell
On May 8, 2008, at 10:05 AM, Jaime Magiera wrote: I searched the archives, read the doc (http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WOL/Deploy+a+WO+Application ), and tried both methods of building. The framework it uses it in the correct location. I did permissions 777 everywhere just to

Re: WOLips deployment problems

2008-05-08 Thread Jaime Magiera
On May 8, 2008, at 4:28 PM, Art Isbell wrote: Try launching your app from a shell prompt Thank you very much. Forgot about launching from the shell. Interestingly, the jar seems to be in the right place, but the app cannot find it... node2:/Library/WebObjects/Applications root#

Re: WOLips deployment problems

2008-05-08 Thread Chuck Hill
On May 8, 2008, at 1:45 PM, Jaime Magiera wrote: On May 8, 2008, at 4:28 PM, Art Isbell wrote: Try launching your app from a shell prompt Thank you very much. Forgot about launching from the shell. Interestingly, the jar seems to be in the right place, but the app cannot find

Re: WOLips deployment problems

2008-05-08 Thread Jaime Magiera
On May 8, 2008, at 4:48 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: Is Application in a package? If so, # ApplicationClass need to indicate that. Look in the project for build.properties: principalClass= Got it. Thanks Chuck. I got the simple test app running and am now trying to get ThoughtConduit

Re: WOLips deployment problems

2008-05-08 Thread Chuck Hill
That classpath _looks_ correct. Try the Wonder list, this is a Wonder issue. I'd guess that your Application.java (and the main() method in particular) are referencing a class in JavaFoundation before referencing anything in ERExtensions. What is in main()? What is Application's super

Starting to wonder

2008-05-08 Thread Randy Wigginton
I'm trying to actively use project wonder. Despite having used WebObjects for several projects, this is laborious. I've tried to follow the quickstart documentation at wikibooks, but there are a lot of places I'm left scratching my head. For example, the documentation on how to produce

Re: WOLips deployment problems

2008-05-08 Thread Mike Schrag
Or you're using the 5.4 Wonder build with WO 5.3 ... On May 8, 2008, at 7:47 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: That classpath _looks_ correct. Try the Wonder list, this is a Wonder issue. I'd guess that your Application.java (and the main() method in particular) are referencing a class in

Re: Starting to wonder

2008-05-08 Thread Mike Schrag
David Teran recommends studying the javadocs. However, the only javadocs I've found appear to be outdated. The link http://webobjects.mdimension.com/wonder/api does not work once you try to click on a class doc (The requested URL /wonder/api/er/ajax/AjaxGMarker.html was not found on this

Re: Starting to wonder

2008-05-08 Thread David Holt
On 8-May-08, at 4:58 PM, Randy Wigginton wrote: I'm trying to actively use project wonder. Despite having used WebObjects for several projects, this is laborious. It's as big as WebObjects, don't expect to understand or use it all at once. The usual advice is to pick something that you

Re: Maybe it's too late

2008-05-08 Thread Don Lindsay
Are you looking for a substring of a string in an array? Or are you looking for the whole string? I have written a routine to find the substring of a string in an array, if that would help. Don On May 8, 2008, at 9:39 AM, Daniele Corti wrote: 2008/5/8 Joshua Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: Macros in WO

2008-05-08 Thread Matthew W. Taylor
Hugi, We use our own markup system, Magex, for instructors to be able to design their own online grammar exercises. The markup is layered on top of and is complementary to HTML markup so that ordinary humans can edit documents in Dreamweaver (or GoLive), save, upload, preview, and publish for