Re: OGNL and Wonder
Re: OGNL and Wonder
- Subject: Re: OGNL and Wonder
- From: Benjamin J Doherty <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:35:04 -0500
On Sep 2, 2004, at 2:59 PM, James Cicenia wrote:
Everytime a question / architecture comes up.. the answer is Wonder!
And don't forget that the answer is also WebObjects 5.2.3! (grumble
Apple-grumble grumble)
One of these days I will use more than the one method I use from
wonder. Mind you it was a nice method.
Wonder looked SO NICE when I was able to use it for my D2JC
application... it told me my model was inconsistent! That was
helpful... but then 5.2.3 started making a huge sucking sound and
throwing null pointer exceptions in the distribution channel.
PS: Maybe it is time for some of us to start creating "Open Source"
modules/frameworks instead. The nice thing about PHP is that there
are a zillion nice projects. My vote would be for an opensource ACL
type system for all new modules to validate against. The problem I see
with the php solutions is that combining them is always very hard with
regards to user validation, etc.
I'd like to see more widgets for java client. Project Wonder has
pretty much nothing on the Java Client side, and I'll be happy to give
my stuff away once I get anything useful together. The basic EOWidgets
are fine for most functions, but I'd like some JRadioButtons as well as
the gold mine of Swing widgets (I saw a nice date selector today) that
already exist work themselves into subclasses of EOWidgetController.
The example on page 268 of the Desktop Apps book supplied by Apple is
obviously pulled out of someone's arse, because the example there fails
to compile.
Right now my "problem" is to make a friendlier widget for a Sex
attribute. It's a one character field, and the user enters M or F (or
nothing or T if they're so inclined). I thought a relationship and
enumeration entity was overkill, especially since that still only
allows for a cumbersome drop-down menu. That's not very simple to use
for such a binary attribute (my gender studies professors would
probably want a many-to-many gendered relationship, and so would
chastise me for being such a structuralist).
Cheers,
benjamin in chicago
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