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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:31:50 +0100
From: Georg Tuparev <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: WOBuilder in the future of WO?
To: WebObjects Dev Apple <email@hidden>
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sorry, pressed the send button too soon...
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I too have mixed feelings about WOBuilder. With all its bugs, it is
still faster to bind a WOString to
Session.observatory.controlRoom.telescope.positioningInstruments.curr
ent
PointingModel.declination using WOBuilder then type it.... And it is
less error prone...
I do not like making announcements like a Microsoft sales rep and
never keep them, but I will make an exception. When the Leopard seed
came first out, I (as usual) started investigating all new goodies by
trying to develop a moderately difficult application. This time my
seed came almost the same time as Cliff's late summer announcements,
so I naturally decided to write a WOBuilder replacement :-)
How far am I? Well, I can already do the operation I described above
using my app. Not much more, but for something I spent not more then
30 min a day not that shabby too. So, do not expect it to be ready
too soon, but soon enough for "Apple's transition plan"...
Actually, to call my attempts WOBulder replacement is not very
correct. My focus is on correctly laying out DIVs, CSS, and Wonder's
AJAX framework. And yes, it also makes WO bindings and understands
from Xcode integration (I see Chuck's and Anjo's faces :-) One neat
idea I am really proud of is the "Project's Component Catalogue"...
Another is that actually I have a forth view - called provisionally
"The Real Thing" that simulates what will happen if one actually
executes the WOApplication by putting fake values for the WO
elements... OK, more on this later.
cheers
gt