Re: Newbie SQL question...
Re: Newbie SQL question...
- Subject: Re: Newbie SQL question...
- From: Chris Hanson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 16:01:17 -0600
At 1:56 PM -0800 12/13/01, John C. Randolph wrote:
Have a look for "GNUWebStep" at www.gnustep.org. It includes a
re-implementation of the Enterprise Objects Framework, roughly
equivalent to EOF 1.0.
How different from the latest EOF is EOF 1.0 or the GNUStep DB framework?
I'm starting to think I've been completely spoiled by WebObjects. I
find myself wanting to be able to specify connections in Interface
Builder using key-value coding. And I really, *really* want EOF for
Objective-C. I don't want it for database connectivity, though -- I
just want it for managing an object graph, and doing data modeling
for my application. My application isn't extremely complex, but if I
could use EOModeler and EOF to do this I could cut about a month off
my development schedule and ship that much soner.
What I'd really like to see is the Cocoa group pick up Objective-C
EOF and ship it the runtime as part of Mac OS X. I'd be willing to
pay a couple hundred bucks for the SDK, even, so long as I could
write end-user applications without having to license EOF to ship
with them. I don't need all sorts of database adaptors - for my
needs in a consumer product, flat-file would be fine.[1] I don't
even need the EOF human interface framework -- all I need is the
"enterprise objects" part.
Cocoa will already let me get this application done in a fraction the
time of any other framework. It could be even better with a great
data modeling layer.
(Has anyone built something like EOF on Foundation yet? I think a
couple people have mentioned wanting to do something like that.)
-- Chris
[1] I do want to create an enterprise version of my application, for
which a JDBC adaptor (using the Java bridge) would be useful. But I
don't need all sorts of native adaptors for Oracle, Informix, etc. --
JDBC over the bridge should be OK.
--
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