Re: Merits of D2JC (was: user obstacles to WOLips adoption (was: Apple's Support of WebObjects))

2007-05-14 Thread Q
Groovy supports a form of rapid swing ui prototyping using their SwingBuilder interface. You could possibly use this as an alternative. There is also a GroovySWT library that works in a similar fashion. On 14/05/2007, at 4:25 PM, Andrus Adamchik wrote: On May 9, 2007, at 4:36 PM, David

Re: Merits of D2JC (was: user obstacles to WOLips adoption (was: Apple's Support of WebObjects))

2007-05-13 Thread Andrus Adamchik
On May 9, 2007, at 4:36 PM, David Avendasora wrote: But, with all that said, note I said "quickly mock-up and prototype". D2JC is a great tool to make sure my model is valid and that the entities and relationships, delete-rules, and optionality I thought were proper on paper, actually wor

Re: user obstacles to WOLips adoption (was: Apple's Support of WebObjects)

2007-05-10 Thread Robert Walker
Ashley, I hate to break it to you, but along with the deprecation of the Xcode based tools, comes the deprecation of D2JC (and also non- direct to Java Client as well). Again as mentioned in some previous posts, this was pure conjecture. It's really unclear whether or not this is true, an

Re: user obstacles to WOLips adoption (was: Apple's Support of WebObjects)

2007-05-09 Thread Ashley Aitken
Hi All, On 09/05/2007, at 9:14 AM, Robert Walker wrote: At least that's my understanding. I could be wrong about that. But, I'm pretty certain that being able to create Java Client applications with custom interfaces using Interface Builder has no future. I believe David (correct me i

Re: Merits of D2JC (was: user obstacles to WOLips adoption (was: Apple's Support of WebObjects))

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Walker
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/WebObjects/ DesktopApplications/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30001017 states that the nib files are translated directly to Swing by WO. So it sounds to me like WO parses the nib file and determines how to build the Swing interface. Since you aren'

Re: Merits of D2JC (was: user obstacles to WOLips adoption (was: Apple's Support of WebObjects))

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Walker
David, Come to think of it, maybe it's just the Xcode Project templates that will no exist in future versions of Xcode. Maybe the underlying technologies will still work, but they are not being actively developed. Which, I guess, is no huge deal since they haven't been enhanced in years

Re: Merits of D2JC (was: user obstacles to WOLips adoption (was: Apple's Support of WebObjects))

2007-05-09 Thread David Avendasora
I can't find anywhere where anything talks about Direct-To or Non- Direct Java Client being depreciated. But I can't find anything that says otherwise either. I don't believe that the Java-Cocoa bridge (which, if I understand correctly, is what was depreciated and therefore all of the Apple

Re: user obstacles to WOLips adoption (was: Apple's Support of WebObjects)

2007-05-08 Thread Robert Walker
David, I hate to break it to you, but along with the deprecation of the Xcode based tools, comes the deprecation of D2JC (and also non-direct to Java Client as well). At least that's my understanding. I could be wrong about that. But, I'm pretty certain that being able to create Java Cl

Re: user obstacles to WOLips adoption (was: Apple's Support of WebObjects)

2007-05-08 Thread David Avendasora
The whole point of _my_ use of Xcode and especially D2JC is that it is nearly zero work to quickly mock-up and prototype object model and have it as a running application (D2JC) in a mater of seconds with no configuration of the development environment. It either Just Works™ or I have a pro

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-08 Thread Mark Glossop
On 2007.05.08 20:55, somebody called Mike Schrag ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) bingled this: >> I'm guessing that no-one who hates the all-in-one approach has also >> tried the Eclipse 3.3 releases? > Note that WOLips does not yet support 3.3 ... The bindings API was > not finalized in 3.2, and Entity Model

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-08 Thread Andrew Satori
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is this: The Java based WO Tools are dead (EOModeler, WOBuilder), but the Xcode based WO Tools will continue to exist and get enhancements as the pertain to Xcode in general (XCDataModeler, JAM/ANT based project support in Xcode). Based upon t

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-08 Thread Mike Schrag
I'm guessing that no-one who hates the all-in-one approach has also tried the Eclipse 3.3 releases? Note that WOLips does not yet support 3.3 ... The bindings API was not finalized in 3.2, and Entity Modeler uses it extensively. The finalized API in 3.3 is completely changed, so I can't rel

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-08 Thread Mark Glossop
On 2007.05.08 00:05, somebody called Guido Neitzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) bingled this: > On 07.05.2007, at 09:51, Patrick Robinson wrote: > >> The one thing I can't figure out how to do in Eclipse, that I have >> found to be almost indispensable in Xcode, is to be able to open >> separate files in

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-07 Thread Simon McLean
but I can click a button and get either a Direct-To-Java-Client app, or a running web-application that just works. You can do this with Eclipse too. I can safely say I have never tinkered with the build scripts in either XCode or Eclipse. Simon __

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-07 Thread Cheong Hee (Datasonic)
To add on, I would think that the support for MS Windows development and deployment is deprecated. That was already obsolete as of WO 5.3. No guessing there. But again, that is about officially supported environments - which became Mac OS X only. You are free to deploy elsewhere. My doubt about

Re: user obstacles to WOLips adoption (was: Apple's Support of WebObjects)

2007-05-07 Thread Mike Schrag
I don't have time to respond to this whole email just now, but one thing: Eclipse: No option to create an ant-based project by default (apart from creating a Java project from an existing build file - but insists on not keeping your project as is, but creating a dir in the workspace and c

Re: user obstacles to WOLips adoption (was: Apple's Support of WebObjects)

2007-05-07 Thread Lachlan Deck
Hi Mike and all, just some general thoughts... On 05/05/2007, at 7:12 AM, Mike Schrag wrote: I like the apple tools. I know WOLips and project WOnder exist for eclipse but I do not like these tools much. I agree with Kieran completely, Yes, I can concur with Kieran's experience having als

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-07 Thread David Avendasora
On May 4, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Guido Neitzer wrote: perhaps I haven't configured Eclipse in a way that it really behaves like I want it. Bingo. This is why I have not yet switched. I have to configure EVERYTHING in Eclipse, and the options seem to change almost continuously. This may sound si

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-07 Thread Miguel Arroz
Hi! I got used to it. The only thing that I really miss is having the window broke in half, and on the top one file, and another file (or even perhaps the same) on the bottom. I think eclipse can do this, but taking a ridiculous amount of space. Even so, most reasons I needed it in th

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-07 Thread Kieran Kelleher
I prefer the tabbed workspace it just seems better organized and you can click on any tab to get a view beside multiple keystrokes/ clicks to use Exposé to find a window. In any case though, you can do New Window, open your file and double- click the tab so that the view occupies the com

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-07 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 07.05.2007, at 09:51, Patrick Robinson wrote: The one thing I can't figure out how to do in Eclipse, that I have found to be almost indispensable in Xcode, is to be able to open separate files in separate *windows* - that is, windows that I can independently size and move around on my de

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-07 Thread Patrick Robinson
On May 4, 2007, at 5:12 PM, Mike Schrag wrote: I like the apple tools. I know WOLips and project WOnder exist for eclipse but I do not like these tools much. I agree with Kieran completely, but for people who just don't like Eclipse/WOLips (compared to Xcode, specifically), what /exactly/ is

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-07 Thread Miguel Arroz
Hi! I know people who are developing on Windows on 5.3. You just have to do something based on the FreeBSD and Linux installations description (on the WikiBook), replacing the libs, etc, and it works. With Eclipse and WOLips, of course. You are no different then on the Mac, because "our

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-07 Thread Ken Anderson
And I hear Eclipse and WOLips runs fine on Windows for development... On May 7, 2007, at 3:44 AM, Lachlan Deck wrote: On 07/05/2007, at 4:36 PM, Cheong Hee (Datasonic) wrote: I know that Apple had decided last year to deprecate/stop development of Web Objects. To add on, I would think tha

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-07 Thread Lachlan Deck
On 07/05/2007, at 4:36 PM, Cheong Hee (Datasonic) wrote: I know that Apple had decided last year to deprecate/stop development of Web Objects. To add on, I would think that the support for MS Windows development and deployment is deprecated. That was already obsolete as of WO 5.3. No guess

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-06 Thread Ian Joyner
Another Mark Twain moment: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/marktwain141773.html Ian On 05/05/2007, at 5:18 AM, Don Lindsay wrote: Hello; I know that Apple had decided last year to deprecate/stop development of Web Objects. Has there been any change in the status of Web

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-06 Thread Chuck Hill
On May 5, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Kieran Kelleher wrote: "Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain" - old Irish proverb ;-) No bears in Ireland, are there? :-P -- Practical WebObjects - for developers who want to increase their overall knowledge of WebObjects or who are trying t

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-05 Thread Kieran Kelleher
On May 5, 2007, at 5:27 PM, Jean Pierre Malrieu wrote: This IDE kinds of remind me everyday that I don't really master it. And I don't like the way it tends to fill up the screen, or the way it pretends to show everything simultaneously by adding views all around. May be the default WOLips pe

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-05 Thread Jean Pierre Malrieu
This IDE kinds of remind me everyday that I don't really master it. And I don't like the way it tends to fill up the screen, or the way it pretends to show everything simultaneously by adding views all around. May be the default WOLips perspective should only have 2 or 3 views (package explor

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-04 Thread Don Lindsay
Hello Mike; Ms. Johnson, your 3rd grade teacher, is grinding her dentures as we speak. For shame. :) Don On May 4, 2007, at 3:31 PM, Mike Schrag wrote: I have several products that I wish to use WebObjects for, but it is difficult to proceed with these projects using WebObject when it'

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-04 Thread Steven Mark McCraw
Chuck does, well, at least he has once ;) http://odeo.com/audio/372795/view Pretty Sweet. On May 4, 2007, at 7:57 PM, Miguel Arroz wrote: Hi! I didn't even knew that existed! :) Java world is usually so boring and dull that I simply don't care (the fact that WO runs on Java is an inci

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-04 Thread Miguel Arroz
Hi! I didn't even knew that existed! :) Java world is usually so boring and dull that I simply don't care (the fact that WO runs on Java is an incident!)... do they talk often about WO in that podcast? Yours Miguel Arroz On 2007/05/05, at 00:46, Q wrote: On 05/05/2007, at 7:56 AM,

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-04 Thread Q
On 05/05/2007, at 7:56 AM, Miguel Arroz wrote: Hi! On 2007/05/04, at 21:38, Kieran Kelleher wrote: I used Apple Tools for a few years and switched to WOLips/Eclipse at the start of this year. Recently I had to work on an old XCode project and after 2 days, I was suicidal and I *had* to co

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-04 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 04.05.2007, at 16:04, Mike Schrag wrote: Log me a bug in the WOLips jira with exactly which shortcuts you want and I can drop them in. Okay, I'll do that. Just created a task for me to collect the useful shortcuts. cug ___ Do not post admin r

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-04 Thread David Holt
Hi Mike, Good question. I think that the only thing I have found in making the transition to Eclipse is that you get used to a certain workflow/ workaroundflow in Xcode and it is very different from Eclipse (hardly worth trying to change to reflect Xcode). I also remember spending many day

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-04 Thread Mike Schrag
Is there a way of getting Entity Modeler behave more like EOModeler for shortcuts? Log me a bug in the WOLips jira with exactly which shortcuts you want and I can drop them in. 3. User Interface doesn't "feel OS Xish" -- This is leveled a lot, but I'm REALLY curious to find out SPECIFICS of

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-04 Thread Mike Schrag
2. No support for logical model vs physical model of project files -- Eclipse 3.2 DOES have a logical model API, but we're not currently using it in WOLips (and I haven't looked at how to yet). I missed this for about 15 minutes. Then I realized my projects should have their code in package

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-04 Thread Miguel Arroz
Hi! On 2007/05/04, at 21:38, Kieran Kelleher wrote: I used Apple Tools for a few years and switched to WOLips/Eclipse at the start of this year. Recently I had to work on an old XCode project and after 2 days, I was suicidal and I *had* to convert it to WOLips it was just too slow and

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-04 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 04.05.2007, at 15:12, Mike Schrag wrote: I agree with Kieran completely, but for people who just don't like Eclipse/WOLips (compared to Xcode, specifically), what /exactly/ is it that you don't like? Not Eclipse / Xcode but Entity Modeler / EOModeler: I was really used to the keyboard s

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-04 Thread David LeBer
On 4-May-07, at 5:12 PM, Mike Schrag wrote: 2. No support for logical model vs physical model of project files -- Eclipse 3.2 DOES have a logical model API, but we're not currently using it in WOLips (and I haven't looked at how to yet). I missed this for about 15 minutes. Then I realized

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-04 Thread Mike Schrag
I like the apple tools. I know WOLips and project WOnder exist for eclipse but I do not like these tools much. I agree with Kieran completely, but for people who just don't like Eclipse/WOLips (compared to Xcode, specifically), what /exactly/ is it that you don't like? Note #1: This is NOT

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-04 Thread Kieran Kelleher
On May 4, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Don Lindsay wrote: Hello; I know that Apple had decided last year to deprecate/stop development of Web Objects. Has there been any change in the status of Web Objects support? When will it quit being distributed as part of XCode? Has/or w

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-04 Thread Mike Schrag
Perhaps you were trying to say something different from your conscious intent. Though I'm sure there are some who would like to suggest that it's past. :-) For the record, my first sentence was "it's not in doubt", which I backspaced over for the version with a better cadence that used the

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-04 Thread Jerry W. Walker
Hi, Mike, On May 4, 2007, at 3:31 PM, Mike Schrag wrote: I have several products that I wish to use WebObjects for, but it is difficult to proceed with these projects using WebObject when it's future is in doubt. It's future is not in doubt. It's = its. Perhaps you were trying to say som

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-04 Thread Mike Schrag
I have several products that I wish to use WebObjects for, but it is difficult to proceed with these projects using WebObject when it's future is in doubt. It's future is not in doubt. It's = its. I bring shame to my elementary school English teachers. ms __

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-04 Thread Don Lindsay
Hello Robert, Mike; Thanks for the information. Since WO frameworks are not going to be deprecated I can proceed with developing new applications. Wooo HOOO! Don On May 4, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Pascal Robert wrote: Le 07-05-04 à 15:18, Don Lindsay a écrit : Hello; I know that Apple had de

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-04 Thread Mike Schrag
I know that Apple had decided last year to deprecate/stop development of Web Objects. Not correct .. They deprecated Apple's tools development, not WO framework development. Has there been any change in the status of Web Objects support? Can't answer this one. When will it

Re: Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-04 Thread Pascal Robert
Le 07-05-04 à 15:18, Don Lindsay a écrit : Hello; I know that Apple had decided last year to deprecate/stop development of Web Objects. They dropped development of the TOOLS. The frameworks are NOT deprecated. Has there been any change in the status of Web Objects support?

Apple's Support of WebObjects

2007-05-04 Thread Don Lindsay
Hello; I know that Apple had decided last year to deprecate/stop development of Web Objects. Has there been any change in the status of Web Objects support? When will it quit being distributed as part of XCode? Has/or will Apple give the source code of WebObjects to th