Re: Why WebObjects?
Re: Why WebObjects?
- Subject: Re: Why WebObjects?
- From: Lucas Haley <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 11:59:57 -0700
Heya --
I'm very new to WebObjects myself, coming from a very similar
background of PHP, ASP, etc etc. It took me quite a while to get to
know WO at all, but I distinctly remember the one day that it all
started to make sense. And it really does, and it really is very very
cool. Here are some of the things I would point out to someone
starting:
- get the trial version. Its the whole thing, for free. You can't
deploy fully, but for development, who needs to?
- get Jesse Fielder's book. Its great. It does miss out on some things,
but it does a good job laying down the foundations.
- the other books out there now are relatively useless. Most are for
version 4, and all of them, in my small opinion, are confusing,
obfuscating, and poorly writtten.
- forget about how you would develop in PHP, it will only get in the
way of WO. It was suggested to me -- and I found it indispensible --
that I should forget that there is even a database. The point of WO is
to create a layer between the db and the interface so that interactions
with the db are minimised. Once the model is set up, most of the work
is click-and-drag in Builder.
- go relational. If only because WO rocks the relational.
- one trick that really helped me is the "flatten relationship" feature
in Modeller. I don't remember where I picked this up (I dont think it
in Fielder), but it makes me smile every time I get to traverse db
relationships with no code at all.
I'm going to be making my own "newbie's guide from a newbie" in june,
and I'll post the link to this listserv.
-Lucas
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