Re: Beginners question: three-tier app with cocoa client
Re: Beginners question: three-tier app with cocoa client
- Subject: Re: Beginners question: three-tier app with cocoa client
- From: Paul Lynch <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:43:54 +0100
On 21 Apr 2006, at 08:51, Frank Herzog wrote:
I'm new to WebObjects and web application development. I've read
quite a few things, but now I'm stuck in questions of the general
application layout.
As I see it, in WO, I can either choose between a Java Client
application, or a Web application which is accessed through a web
browser.
Or WebServices.
In my case, I'd rather prefer a Cocoa/Objective-C application on
the client side, because I'll have a high amount of user
interactivity. In the WO documentation, I couldn't find the 'link'
between the java/server-side world and a possible Cocoa/client-side
application. What have I missed here?
The link is historical. EOF used to be supported from Objective C,
but that was dropped after WO 4.5, when Apple migrated from ObjC to
Java (and at that time were putting some pressure on migrating
desktop apps in Cooca from ObjC to Java, too). That's what you missed.
A Cocoa EOF app would be possible if you could license WO 4.5 - but
you can't. There are alternatives, which are to use the ObjC Java
bridge, which is now unsupported (and was always a little flakey), or
JNI, which is expensive to use. But you don't need to. Look for web
service support in Cocoa and WebObjects.
Or, to put it in other words: I've read that WO is the technology
behind the iTunes Music Store. The iTunes application itself is
pure Cocoa, I guess. But what is actually connecting the two?
iTunes isn't Cocoa. But it uses web services.
Paul
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