Re: Auto reconciler
Re: Auto reconciler
- Subject: Re: Auto reconciler
- From: Art Isbell <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 09:14:26 -1000
On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 10:31 AM, Andre Olivier wrote:
I know that the main discussion topics here are web based but mine is
desktop. I would like to develop a desktop application that reads two
text files, one the GL file and the other the Bank file and then
reconciles the two. It will then leave the rest to manually ticked
off. Can I develop something like that with WebObjects?
Sure you can. You've got all of the Java libraries at your disposal.
I frequently build simple little apps that have a single Web page that
supports input (e.g., paths to the files to be reconciled) and a submit
button that starts the processing with possibly a WOString that
displays output.
One problem with such apps is that WO is a server technology, so it is
designed to run continuously. That means that killing the process when
it's finished isn't so convenient which is why I typically run these
processes from within Project Builder.
But I find writing such apps to be generally easier using Cocoa.
Reading a file using the Java API is much more clunky than using Cocoa.
Cocoa provides the NSOpenPanel which is much nicer than manually
entering file paths. And it's much easier to launch and quit a Cocoa
app.
Aloha,
Art
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