---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dirk Theisen <[email protected]> Date: Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:06 AM Subject: FYI: "CoreData lite" To: [email protected]
From: Ken Case <[email protected]> Subject: FYI: OmniDataObjects To: [email protected] Date: 4. Mai 2009 16:49 Hi, all, it's been a while! We still use EOF for one of our internal projects (OmniBugSnacker), but as you all know it's getting a little long in the tooth. (It gets harder and harder to keep it limping along with each OS upgrade--really, it's amazing that it still works at all on Leopard after so many years and an architecture switch.) For OmniFocus, we decided to try CoreData since we didn't need to store our database on a central server. (Setting up a central server to hold your data is a hard sell for a consumer app anyway.) It works reasonably well for that purpose, and certainly has a more modern API than EOF! When we decided we needed to be able to synchronize that data, we recorded the CoreData transactions (insert, update, delete) as XML and sent them to a WebDAV server where other clients could read them and apply the same changes. Now, this doesn't exactly replace EOF, but it does have some advantages: you can access your data offline, and synchronize it on your own schedule (through notifications or on your own schedule or on demand). Anyway, the reason I mention all this is because when we ported OmniFocus to the iPhone last year, we were surprised to find that it didn't have CoreData yet--so we ended up writing the pieces we needed and releasing them as the OmniDataObjects framework, which we released as open source under an MIT license. Some of those pieces might be useful in other contexts; since it's all under an MIT license, you're welcome to grab whatever bits you find useful and use them however you like. All of Omni's open source frameworks are now published through github (you'll find a link to them at <http://www.omnigroup.com/developer/>), and if you want to talk about OmniDataObjects further it has its own mailing list (nearly as quiet as this one!) at <http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/omnidataobjects>. Cheers, Ken _______________________________________________ EOF mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/eof --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cocotron Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cocotron-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -- Yen-Ju Chen Sent from Hsin-Chu, Hsz, Taiwan _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
