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Re: shopping carts


  • Subject: Re: shopping carts
  • From: email@hidden
  • Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:52:23 -0700

Check:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/WebObjects/JavaForWODev/ JavaForWODev.pdf


Go down to the "Test My Java Skills" Section. This document teaches the core WO concepts using a shopping cart application as an example.

- I
On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 07:32 PM, Arturo Pirez wrote:

On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 09:23  PM, Art Isbell wrote:

On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 11:22  AM, Dev WO wrote:

-Is there a sample shopping cart for WO available somewhere to see how it works?

Because a shopping cart page is usually designed specifically for the intended use, a generic shopping cart implementation may not be too useful.


Basically, a shopping cart can be implemented by declaring in your Session class a NSMutableArray instance variable with appropriate accessor methods ... This isn't difficult to implement in WO.

<diatribe>
You know just about every WO newbie asks this cart question. And just about every time the answer is the same:
It's really easy! You just ...


Now, personally, I agree that it's easy (having done it). 99.99% of the effort in making the shopping cart
is in getting it to meet the desires of the people asking for the cart. But I also watched a senior engineer
struggle with a cart for over 2 months. Part of it was that I gave him a framework that did all the validation
and database work. He spent at least 4 weeks trying to understand the validation logic. To me it was strange
because it was
instantiate one of these do addOtBSoRwK, instantiate one of those do addOtBSoRwK, etc.
save it and catch the validation errors and make the user do it right.
But he didn't get it. So now I'm not too sure that it is as easy as we all know it to be.
</diatribe>


All that hot air being vented is it really as easy as pointing the newbies to WOPetStore?

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