Re: EO- classes in ObjC, (was Java Question - getting access to protected methods...)
Re: EO- classes in ObjC, (was Java Question - getting access to protected methods...)
- Subject: Re: EO- classes in ObjC, (was Java Question - getting access to protected methods...)
- From: Lance Bland <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 14:39:44 -0500
On Saturday, November 24, 2001, at 01:39 PM, Murray Todd Williams wrote:
Anyway, I had been interested in knowing if there was a similar
database access scheme for Objective-C. After web searching around a
GNUStep project I came to understand that the EO- classes represented
the current (former?) Way to Access Databases for Objective-C / Cocoa.
EOF written in Objective-C from NeXT existed before Java or WebObjects
was invented. It was a DB access layer for client computers, before NeXT
thought about a server market. It was pretty nice, except for some
memory leak issues. But memory leaks weren't to bad for a desktop app.
Objective-C EOF still exists in WebObjects 4.5.1 (which runs on Mac OS X
10.1) which you can buy from Apple. However, you should speak with Apple
about their future plans for it.
In other words, does the Objective-C programmer need to either access
JDBC or WebObjects/EOWhatever via the Java bridge or write in raw ODBC?
It depends what you want to do and how hard you want to work for access.
I would be inclined to go for the raw ODBC. :-> But, heck, that's me;
I'm sure other people would disagree with that.
-lance
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