Re: Starting out
Re: Starting out
- Subject: Re: Starting out
- From: Geoff Hopson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 14:32:11 +0000
There's a lot of good information here:
http://wodev.com/
and some useful examples here:
http://wocode.com/
And the search engine here covers WO, EOF and OSX all in one
place...sometimes what you are looking for is mentioned in other OSX
areas:
http://wodeveloper.com/
Good luck!
geoff
On 4 Mar 2004, at 14:55, David Griffith wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> I was in the same boat a few weeks ago.
>
> First, some good Java Tutorials online:
>
> http://java.sun.com/learning/tutorial/index.html
>
> You will find the Java 1.42 API at:
>
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/
>
> You will need the WebObjects API which should be with your installed
> WebObjects developer kit.
>
> There quite a few documents about using WebObjects at:
>
> http://developer.apple.com
>
> I am using it for a few weeks now and finding it very powerful, my
> biggest
> problem has been finding some good basic examples and tutorials on how
> to
> approach things in WO. It takes some time to get used to the API's
> and they
> are not particularly explanatory for people that haven't used them
> before.
> They tell you the bare minimum of information in most cases which is
> often
> not enough to get you to where you need to be. Unless you are already
> very
> familiar with Java and WO, which I'm not (or at least wasn't, I'm
> getting
> there day by day).
>
> I have found this list to be very useful, you can search it at:
>
> http://www.omnigroup.com/developer/mailinglists/webobjects-dev/
>
> I try to search for answers before posting them here, but sometimes
> it's
> hard to find them. Also, (please don't anyone take offense to this!)
> I do
> find that sometimes responses here are also a little like the API's.
> Or
> worse, you are told to READ the API. Well, usually I have already done
> that, that's why I'm asking the question here. I guess a lot of WO
> developers are a bit too busy to answer questions in great detail for
> the
> novice. That said, without this list I would certainly not have
> gotten as
> far as I have. Thanks to everyone that replies here, whether their
> responses are detailed or not. Without them, a lot of us would be
> lost.
>
> Regarding books, there are a number. I have several of them and to be
> honest they helped a bit in some areas but were not incredibly useful.
> I
> don't think I have one in particular that I would use as a general
> reference.
>
> Hope that helps somewhat!
>
> Dave.
>
>> I have some basic C/C+ training that I've taken, albeit a few years
>> old. I'm
>> very interesting in WO development/deployment. I have some WO books,
>> but I
>> know little about Java, so it's somewhat useless to me so far. What
>> kind of
>> training/education/reading material would you recommend? Most of my
>> peers have
>> recommended basic/advanced Java books andd classes, some Cocoa and
>> Obj-C, XML,
>> and some DB basics. One person recommended "Design Patterns", but I
>> haven't
>> got anything else solid. So if my goal is to be a WO master, where do
>> I begin?
>>
>> -jeremy
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