Re: Xcode + WO book
Re: Xcode + WO book
- Subject: Re: Xcode + WO book
- From: Tom Termini <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 13:25:11 -0500
I'm one of the authors of Professional WebObjects with Java from
Wrox. The book gets some bad reviews -- hey, basically two of us
ended up writing 75% of it, and there was no single editor. And we
did it in about six weeks! the Wrox approach is good in that they
chunk out books quickly, but the "group authoring" model is flawed
when there's no single editorial leadership.
I have some of the source code for the examples -- I can share it one-
on-one if someone writes me to ask about it.
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Ubique,
Tom Termini
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:25:16 -0500
From: Fred Shurtleff <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Xcode + WO book
To: Jeremy Matthews <email@hidden>
Cc: email@hidden
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Jeremy-
You may want to take a look at a poet my me on Mar 7 re:'Question
about
WORepititions'
in which I offer a mini-review of books I recently read.
Only book I omitted is "Webobjects 5.0 with Java" (Wrox Press
2001). It
is not too good in my opinion - too high level and the sample code is
NOT available (although I did learn from the WO Wiki that the
Netstruxr
example did transform into the Project WONDER). There are 2 chapters
dealing on Direct to Web(D2W)) templating and the D2W Rules Engine,
which are advanced WO features and which I have not found in other
books. I bought it for $1.87 off Amazon, so no complaints here.
I you have gotten past the basics, then I would say the Ravi Mendis
book
is quite good for progressing to a more intermediate level. The
examples
build, for the most part, interatively so when you finish you have a
quite full-featured application built using previously built reusable
components. The code was built using ProjectBuilder, which is the
predecessor to Xcode; some the the apps will compile/run using todays
Xcode 2.4.1- others will not (because of lacking dependencies such
Apache FO XO processor jar). But I deleted these superfluous
component/classes from the project, then copied them into an Eclipse
project, where they ran quite well (with a few bugs); and I practiced
from within Eclipse.
Also the 'Practical WebObjects' is excellent, but does use Eclipse for
its demos. So you would have to copy/transform the demos a bit for
Xcode
use.
HTH
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