The four options that come immediately to mind are:
* direct actions
* shared database
* shared file
* Web Services
For direct actions, you could provide a couple direct action methods.
The first would provide the count of the array as an integer. The
second would provide an indexed value on each call, so you just
iterate your way through the array. Slow and definitely not
recommended for large arrays, but would be a quick solution for small
arrays.
For a shared database, you could share anything from a single table
to the entire EOModel between the two apps. Application A writes
values into a table, Application B reads them from the table. It
would probably be easiest if B cleaned out the table when the values
were read.
For a shared file, you could use several approaches. You might create
a CSV file (Comma Separated Values) with the array's values and write
them out one array element per line of the file. You could also
serialize the array (See the java.io.Serializable Interface) so that
Application A serializes it to the file and Application B
instantiates it from the file.
For Web Services, you can make Application A a Web Services server
and Application B a Web Services client. For help with this approach,
see Apple's Web Services documentation at:
I'm sure that with a little thought, others on the list might come up
with other approaches, but these are the first that come to mind. If
you decide to use direct actions or Web Services, be sure to consider
security, because you're opening the array's values to anyone on the
web unless you explicitly secure the interface.
There are security concerns with the shared database and shared file
approaches as well, but they tend to be lesser concerns because the
simple use of either of those approaches tends to restrict access to
the availability of the database or the file system respectively and
access to each of those tends to be a good deal more limited.
Regards,
Jerry
On Dec 20, 2006, at 4:01 AM, Srinivas Adusumalli wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I have a situation where i have to access the variables in one
application from another application.
For Ex: Lets say we have two Webobjects applications A and B , can
i access variables in the Applicaiton calss of B from A.
I know that we can invoke a direct action in application B from
application A , IF it is a string value that has to be accessed
then somehow it wud have been possible but embeddign it in the
response but i need to access an NSArray in application B which
will contain lot of objects from A. Is this possible?
Thanks & Regards,
Srinivas
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