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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

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