Re: Old D2W Project Builder projects to new world?
Re: Old D2W Project Builder projects to new world?
- Subject: Re: Old D2W Project Builder projects to new world?
- From: Chuck Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 11:48:16 -0800
Hi Markus,
On Dec 28, 2010, at 11:01 PM, Markus Ruggiero wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after some 3 years of absence from WO I have a customer asking me to teach an old D2W application some new things and port it to the new world. The app is currently maintained on WindowsXP with WO 5.2 and the old Project Builder and tools.
Eeew. :-)
> Some time ago I have done Eclipse/WOlips things on my Mac, but no D2W. What are the currently recommended versions of Eclipse and WOlips? What is the best and easiest strategy to port such an old D2W to Eclipse/WOlips?
These two sites are the places to look:
http://www.wocommunity.org/page/default
http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WOL/Home
> I am primarily looking for strategic advice. One important thing is that the new app must be deployed into the existing environment (I have no influence there and cannot change anything). Thus there will still be WO 5.2 runtime installed and deployment is through JavaWOMonitor. I cannot request installation of new frameworks (e.g. Wonder). Any such addition must be self-contained inside the .woa
That is very easy to do now with embedded frameworks (Wonder, WebObjects, embed it all). The older deployment should be find an app based on a newer WO. However, I just remembered that the Java version has changed. Unless you can install a newer JVM, you will probably have to stick with WO 5.2 and a very old Wonder version.
> Any good advice? Some (simple) steps I can follow? Step by step outline of the procedures? My WO has become a bit rusty and my D2W knowledge is like "oh, some sentences in the docs seem to be kind of familiar".
Convert the project to Eclipse/WOLips. You will need to get WO 5.2 "installed" on your dev machine first. That will be a challenge unless your client has the install disks as it was license key protected back then. Your next step is to determine if a newer JVM can be installed. The answer to that will dictate your next steps.
Chuck
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