Re: Explaining the power of Direct to Web

2006-05-21 Thread Anjo Krank
Am 22.05.2006 um 04:08 schrieb Jerry W. Walker: Add the Project Wonder frameworks (as I understand) and it not only becomes robust, but comes with methods that are already available to do most anything one wants to do on the web. To substantiate this last claim, simply Google on the two phr

Re: Explaining the power of Direct to Web

2006-05-21 Thread Arturo Pérez
Before D2W came out I once created 5 CRUD apps with the older WebObjects wizard in 1/2 hour with three other managers arguing in my office over the look & feel of said CRUD app. It was one of the things that prevented us from migrating to another environment. Unfortunately, the J2EE zealo

Re: Explaining the power of Direct to Web

2006-05-21 Thread Jerry W. Walker
Hi, David,I think the comparison between CSS and D2W is imaginative and accurate as far as it goes, but badly undersells D2W.Without comparing it to CSS, I think its power can be understood by the following statements:  * If a legacy database exists, or we create a new database, we can use WebObjec

Re: Explaining the power of Direct to Web

2006-05-20 Thread Blue Moon
It's definitely CSS for objects. But in a sense it is also WO square: D2W = WO^2. That's because in concept D2W applies WebObject's page generation mechanism once more, at the component level. Instead of having to program an editor component for every entity in your model you use a generic

Re: Explaining the power of Direct to Web

2006-05-19 Thread Pierce T. Wetter III
On May 19, 2006, at 9:53 AM, David Holt wrote: After reading all the Direct to Web stuff I could get my hands on, I was trying to describe to my boss why we need to be looking at it and moving towards it. The metaphor I came up with was that D2W is like CSS for objects. I think that sort o

Re: Explaining the power of Direct to Web

2006-05-19 Thread Ken Anderson
David,I think people on the list could help out a lot better if we had an understanding of what you expect from D2W or any other WO technology.  What do you need it to do?  What kind of resources are available?KenOn May 19, 2006, at 12:53 PM, David Holt wrote:After reading all the Direct to Web stu

Explaining the power of Direct to Web

2006-05-19 Thread David Holt
After reading all the Direct to Web stuff I could get my hands on, I was trying to describe to my boss why we need to be looking at it and moving towards it. The metaphor I came up with was that D2W is like CSS for objects. I think that sort of describes its power, but I would be interested in how