New (sorta) to WebObjects and looking for some insight.
New (sorta) to WebObjects and looking for some insight.
- Subject: New (sorta) to WebObjects and looking for some insight.
- From: Andrew Satori <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:41:13 -0500
OK, so I'm only sorta new to this, I've experimented and done many of
the WO tutorials on WO a couple of times as I've flirted with WO a
couple of times in the past 3 years, however this time I'm fairly
seriously working to build a web application using WO.
Now, for me, OpenBase isn't an option, my choices are PostgreSQL or
MSSQL, with a strong preference to PostgreSQL, This isn't a soapbox
thing, it's what I have invested in both knowledge and money, and
switching to OpenBase means a cost that I can't afford right now. So
I feel kinda handicapped right out of the gate. So I'm approaching
this group hoping to gain some insight from people with more
experience and knowledge than myself.
I've worked with ASP, JSP and ASP.NET pretty heavily over the years,
and as I sit down with WO today, what I see is an environment that
implemented 'CodeBehind' logic years before ASP.NET, and deploys
cleaner than a typical JSP war. Building upon just that makes WO a
nice tool, I've already rebuilt my basic website with a blog style
news & announcements system that works, though it's using Java
classes that I hand coded for a JSP implementation of another site a
year or so ago, and not use EOF.
Here's where I've hit a wall.
I've got this WebApp, with a subpage, but I can't seem to generate a
link to that subpage without first linking to it from the main page
and generating a session, and I think I'm missing something that's
probably incredibly obvious. For example, I want to be able to pass
a link to the rss feed from the main page, something like http://
somesite/cgi-bin/WebObjects/myWebApp.woa?rss.wo or similar. This
needs to be done in such a way that the it doesn't require that main
link. I could obviously do this as a seperate WebApp, but that seems
like wasted overhead in this instance.
The second item deals directly with EOF. While I see the advantages
from an intellectual standpoint, I've not had much luck in working
with EOF and any DB engine other than OpenBase, usually getting
syntax errors on the generated SQL. I've also tried the Project
Wonder stuff, but since CVS has been impossible to get to, I can't
build the EOPlugins to generate proper SQL. Which brings me to the
other issue, reverse usage, using EOF with pre-existing schemas where
the Primary Keys are identity (MSSQL) or serial (PostgreSQL)
columns. While *read* seems to work with these models, update and
insert do not. Again, I suspect User Error, probably along the lines
of over complicating things based upon my background. I'm really
just looking for some pointers or a gently nudge in the right direction.
Thanks for reading, and I look forward to your thoughts and suggestions.
Andy Satori
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