Re: Creating an iTunes-like app
Re: Creating an iTunes-like app
- Subject: Re: Creating an iTunes-like app
- From: David LeBer <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:19:58 -0400
On 18-Oct-05, at 11:58 AM, <jasonstratton-
email@hidden> <jasonstratton-
email@hidden> wrote:
1) The books and online material primarily use/describe Project
Builder as opposed to Xcode. Is there any quick start guide for
getting up to speed with Xcode and WO?
I don't remember the jump from PB to Xcode being all that difficult,
but I'd probably recommend the Apple documentation <http://
developer.apple.com/referencelibrary/GettingStarted/GS_Tools/
index.html>.
2) I would like to create an iTunes-like app in Java (WebStart?),
by which I m! ean a fat client with a local data store (flat file
or simple DB) and business logic as well as a server side content
component and online store.
a) Would WO be an appropriate technology for this client app?
b) Is there a simple embedded browser sample/tutorial available as
a starting point/reference for the fat client to display the WO
generated web content?
c) Any recommendations for the local data store? Preferably a low-
cost option?
iTunes is a native client application (Cocoa on the Mac, ??? on
Windows) that talks to a WebObjects back-end (via XML I believe). In
this scenario WebObjects can help you build the back-end but it will
not help you build the client app. I suppose you could build a swing
app that talks to your WebObjects back-end and caches data locally,
but you're on your own there :-).
WebObjects also contains the JavaClient and Direct To Java Client
technologies that will help you build rich client-server applications
that support business logic partitioning. They don't however support
data partitioning - all of the data resides on the server.
--
;david
--
David LeBer
"I am codeferous!"
Codeferous Software
site: http://www.codeferous.com
blog: http://david.codeferous.com
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