RE: Porting XML app from Windows to Mac
RE: Porting XML app from Windows to Mac
- Subject: RE: Porting XML app from Windows to Mac
- From: "Daniel Parnell" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 08:42:46 +1100
- Thread-topic: Porting XML app from Windows to Mac
G'day All,
Also, there are some very nice APIs for talking to web services.
You can use either SOAP or XML-RPC services.
I've used the XML-RPC stuff to talk to some custom back ends that I've written quite sucessfully :)
Daniel
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:email@hidden]On Behalf Of Martin-Gilles
Lavoie
Sent: Saturday, 31 January 2004 8:03 AM
To: Lotsa Cabo
Cc: XCode
Subject: Re: Porting XML app from Windows to Mac
Le 30 janv. 2004, ` 15:13, Lotsa Cabo a icrit :
> I would like some advice.
>
> I am considering porting one of our Windows applications from .NET to
> Mac. We have several Mac users that have requested our product, but
> it currently runs on Windows and communicates with our back end IIS
> server through a WebService. I am curious as to what you "pros" would
> use to do what we are thinking about. Advice on languages,
> components, or techniques would be greatly appreciated.
>
> THE APPLICATION
> 1. App is a compiled UI to a server-based service.
> 2. When launched, the app connects to a web service and downloads the
> user's configuration blob (in XML).
> 3. As the user works within the app, the XML-based configuration file
> is modified.
> 4. When the user "Saves" their changes, the configuration blob is then
> pushed back to the server through the web service.
>
> PROJECT CONSTRAINTS
> 1. The back end server is IIS and is running ASP.NET with two main web
> services published. This cannot be changed at this stage.
> 2. The app must use as many native technologies as possible. Mac is
> not currently our primary deployment platform so we cannot invest
> large amounts of money in it with 3rd party products.
> 3. The use of open source technologies (or freebies) is highly
> discouraged.
Check out Apple's Cocoa framework, accessible either in Java or
Objective-C. I will not get drawn into an argument proposing one over
the other (but Obj-C is better ! ;-) Doh!)
General Cocoa documentation start point:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/
For XML parsing, there are some nice utility classes. Start there:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/
PropertyLists/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/10000048i
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