Re: Creating an iTunes-like app
Re: Creating an iTunes-like app
- Subject: Re: Creating an iTunes-like app
- From: Ian Joyner <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:17:11 +1000
On 19/10/2005, at 1:58 AM, <jasonstratton-
email@hidden> <jasonstratton-
email@hidden> wrote:
All,
I apologize for yet another newbie question, but...
I'm an experienced Java/J2EE developer with some ancient NeXTStep
programming (1992) and I (finally) just recently purchased a 17"
PowerBook (very nice) and WebObjects 5.2.4. (Then found out I could
download 5.3 and Apple will not take back the opened software.)
Perhaps for the best, 5.3 from all reports is still flaky, so it is
still best to use 5.2, otherwise when you hit a problem, you don't
know whether it's you or WO. Most problems I have hit in 5.2 have
been me.
I also got and read a couple of WO books. (In particular I thought
"WebObjects 5 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickPro Guide" was pretty
good.) I think I have my mind around web apps and Direct to Web
apps (just need some experience with them), but I have a couple of
gaps that I was hoping that this list could help me with:
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?
Xcode is just a renaming and updating of PB, it's still pretty much
the same.
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?
5.2 if you want to be cross-platform. But if, as others have
suggested it is Mac OS X only, then look at Cocoa and CoreData. To
get fancy interfaces with WO on a client, you have to do a lot of
swing (but you can get at the underlying swing components via the EO
components. Use custom objects in Interface Builder for JTrees and such.
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?
Examples are under Developer/Examples/JavaWebObjects and look at the
ones labelled JC... and the Sophisticated database example.
c) Any recommendations for the local data store? Preferably a low-
cost option?
3) This project is the main reason I purchased the Mac and
WebObjects, but I had been primarily a Windows user in the past and
so I am an OS X newbie as well. While I am getting up to speed
reasonably well with OS X, I would appreciate any advice/tips/
tricks/etc, especially slanted for a developer.
It is a fairly steep learning curve, but you can do a lot.
Ian Joyner
Sportstec
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