Re: Question of Apple's and Communities Approach...
Re: Question of Apple's and Communities Approach...
- Subject: Re: Question of Apple's and Communities Approach...
- From: Theo Stauffer <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 01:04:25 +0200
Hi,
For database connectivity, there is the mysql-cocoa bindings available
at
http://mysql-cocoa.sourceforge.net/ which apparently works quite
well.
-Theo
On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 04:58 pm, Bryan Zarnett wrote:
I have a question (a loaded one perhaps) concerning the approach Apple
and the associated development community is taking towards Cocoa
libraries. Where the libraries for Objective-C and Cocoa for basic
application development are well done (Foundation and Application),
there seems to be a lack of direct extension libraries for handling
database connectivity, web services, HTTP based communication, regular
expressions, etc.
I know we have the Omnigroup collection of libraries, and a various
other grouping of Objective-C frameworks, but in most circumstances
these frameworks are either not documented, rarely maintained, or no
longer supported.
Although it seems Apple's approach is Cocoa for the desktop and Java
for the Enterprise I would like to easily have my Cocoa/Objective-C
code talk to my Enterprise components using frameworks that other
developers can maintain and understand (or at least find the
documentation for easily). Most other languages including Ruby, PHP,
Java, and C# support additional enterprise libraries out of the box.
So, does anyone have an inkling if Apple has in mind to support such
additions in the future or if there is enough of a community to create
a proper library of maintained libraries like CPAN?
Thanks everyone -- one of those Saturday morning philosophical times.
Cheers,
Bryan
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