If you look at the directory containing any of the sample apps, you will
see that there are properties files, with extensions such as .sdo for data
objects, .spg for pages, etc. These are the files that you create and
maintain in the Studio.
If you open one up in a text editor, you will see that they are all in a
simple hierarchical format. You will also see that each object has a
unique ID number and that the properties file for one object contains a
reference to another object (e.g. a data object has a reference to a data
source) by carrying its id number as a property.
There are some ND customers who have essentially built their own IDEs, and
never use the Studio. Others use the Studio to create the properties
files, and then do some operations directly on the properties files,
especially for global changes, instead of clicking on each object in turn
in the Studio and applying the same change. Others, myself included,
produce relatively simple application objects in the Studio, and put a lot
of functionality into custom java 'superclasses', i.e., classes that extend
the basic ND classes (such as CSpPage) and are the parents of the
Studio-produced application objects (i.e. an individual page in a project).
-- Curt Springer, Team ND
At 02:28 PM 5/14/99 +0800, Lee Wee King wrote:
>Hi all,
> I just started exploring ND . Could someone tell me if it's possible
>to not use the Studio at all ? i.e. I wish to use my own editor to type
>out the html and java files, do my own java compilation, manually copy
>the class files to the right directory and whatever needs to be done to
>get my app running.
>
> I have expeienced other app servers like Oracle and Netscape, and
>both allow me to do this. But I find that developing for ND is very much
>tied to the Studio. Either that or I don't understand the architecture
>well enough at this point in time (not much said about this in the
>docs).
>
> Could someone point me in the right direction ?
>
>Thanx a lot...
>
>Wee King
>
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