Re: State of WebObjects

2006-06-29 Thread Jean Pierre Malrieu
I think that it mainly depends on what web apps you want to create. If you need to customize or add functionalities to applications that might already exist as open source projects (e-commerce, forum, Content Management System etc), you are probably better off with PHP, or JSP. There is

Stuck in chapter 3 of the Mendis book

2006-06-29 Thread womail
I'm not sure if the author is being unclear or if I'm being dense, but I'm stuck and hoping someone can help me out here:First problem:We created a new project, which is supposed to become the splash page for the Dynamic Movies app.  It has an image, and an image map hand-typed in to Main.html

Re: Stuck in chapter 3 of the Mendis book

2006-06-29 Thread Paul Lynch
On 29 Jun 2006, at 07:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We created a new project, which is supposed to become the splash page for the Dynamic Movies app. It has an image, and an image map hand-typed in to Main.html which looks like this: map name=splashmap area shape=rect

Re: Stuck in chapter 3 of the Mendis book

2006-06-29 Thread Wolfram Stebel
Am 29.06.2006 8:57 Uhr schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] unter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Janine, (...removed some words about this book here...) Drop this book. That helped me. I used another beginners book instead, Visual Quickpro Guide WebObjects 5 (Josh Marker). It helped me a lot more. After this try

Re: Stuck in chapter 3 of the Mendis book

2006-06-29 Thread womail
Hi Paul, On Jun 29, 2006, at 12:11 AM, Paul Lynch wrote: He meant that you should replace each of the four area lines above with the WOArea component, with appropriate bindings. Which is exactly what he said :-). Well, I wondered if that was what he meant, but since we haven't done any

Re: Stuck in chapter 3 of the Mendis book

2006-06-29 Thread womail
Hi Wolfram, I hear where you're coming from; I tried to work through this book once before, but ran into all these little problems and eventually lost interest. But I am not as big a fan of the Quickpro book as some others are. I actually want a book I can work through from step to

UK WebObjects Introduction course, July 17-21

2006-06-29 Thread Elizabeth Lynch
We have some places available on our next scheduled Introduction course: Developing Internet Applications with WebObjects: July 17th - 21st Courses are held at our training offices 30 minutes from Central London, 20 minutes from London Heathrow airport. Have a look at our website or

Re: OT: local Oracle on OSX and WO

2006-06-29 Thread David Sargent
We do that for development and it work great. Oracle only tested the server but the OSX system works fine. There are some tricks to installing it on systems with 10.4. There are several web pages (including oracles site) on how to install on 10.4.x. The normal installer will NOT work. You

MP3 or audio file and Openbase

2006-06-29 Thread Gilles MATHURIN
Hi, everyone I am working on a project of a little music label website driven by a database. I must add that i am new to WO and generally speaking to dynamic website conception. I have done only static website still and add a little base in OO programming and Java. So i have worked on it

Re: Eclipse, WO and Windows

2006-06-29 Thread John Stewart
Hi, Until recently I was using WO 5.2.4 under WinXP with Eclipse WOLips. I used EOModeler and WOBuilder quite happily at first, but as patches and updates came in I had increasing problems, such as being unable to change jdbc adaptor settings except by hand. On the up side, it was easy to

Re: JavaMail Props Not Being Set

2006-06-29 Thread Alex Cone
Looks like you are using the non-WO JavaMail objects, not WOSendMail. The properties you care about are: mail.smtp.host mail.smtp.port Try something like: ... public Properties proplist; proplist = System.getProperties(); proplist.put(mail.smtp.host,

Re: State of WebObjects

2006-06-29 Thread John Stewart
One source I found very useful for the philosophy of OO with Java is Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java ebook: http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/ I originally came to OO through C++ Booch, but moving to Java I still found this invaluable. John On 6/29/06, Miguel Arroz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Eclipse, WO and Windows

2006-06-29 Thread logan . allred
Owen wrote on 06/28/2006 09:36:37 PM: Hi All, For those that are developing on Windows under Eclipse what do you use as equivalents to WO-Builder and EOModler ? My understanding is that WOLips doesn't cover these 2. The WOBuilder and EOModeler that come with the Windows deployment of

Unable to find entity for object

2006-06-29 Thread Owen McKerrow
Hi All,Im getting a strange error where WO claims to not know what the entity for an object is.Here's the code :EOEditingContext ec = new EOEditingContext();AuditLog newLog = (AuditLog)

Re: Unable to find entity for object

2006-06-29 Thread Chuck Hill
Hi Owen, On Jun 29, 2006, at 12:09 AM, Owen McKerrow wrote: Im getting a strange error where WO claims to not know what the entity for an object is. Here's the code : EOEditingContext ec = new EOEditingContext(); AuditLog newLog = (AuditLog) EOUtilities.createAndInsertInstance

Re: MP3 or audio file and Openbase

2006-06-29 Thread Chuck Hill
On Jun 29, 2006, at 6:16 AM, Gilles MATHURIN wrote: Hi, everyone I am working on a project of a little music label website driven by a database. I must add that i am new to WO and generally speaking to dynamic website conception. I have done only static website still and add a little

Re: Unable to find entity for object

2006-06-29 Thread David Aspinall
This line also looks wrong to me. Why are you trying to change the Entity Name? newLog.setEntityName(TestEntity); Is this an attribute on your table? It overrides the default EOEnterpriseObject method 'entityName' which I think EOF will be needing. I would recommend removing this

Re: Unable to find entity for object

2006-06-29 Thread Art Isbell
On Jun 28, 2006, at 9:09 PM, Owen McKerrow wrote:EOEditingContext ec = new EOEditingContext();AuditLog newLog = (AuditLog)

Re: Re: Unable to find entity for object

2006-06-29 Thread Gilles MATHURIN
Concerning my problem : i use a WOEmbeddedObject to show the mp3 file, and yes they all end in .mp3, i set the mime-type of the WOEmbeddedObject to audio/mpeg it supposes to work well this way, but apparently i am wrong :-/ I didn't specify a content-type header unless it's the same of

Re: Re: MP3 or audio file and Openbase

2006-06-29 Thread Gilles MATHURIN
I am sorry for the mistake in my post , i clicked the wrong thread (Unable to find entity for object) :-( Here the message : Concerning my problem : i use a WOEmbeddedObject to show the mp3 files, and yes they all end in .mp3, i set the mime-type of the WOEmbeddedObject to audio/mpeg it

Binding synchronization timing problems

2006-06-29 Thread Miguel Arroz
Hi! I'm having some strange problem here, and I still could not understand what's happening. It's somehow related to chapter 7, Mysteries of Binding Synchronization on Practical WO book. I have a table in my page, made with a WORepetition component. I wanted to write a pager

Re: MP3 or audio file and Openbase

2006-06-29 Thread Chuck Hill
Why are you using WOEmbeddedObject? Are you using a plugin to play the MP3 files? If so, the functionality from that will depend on the plugin you are using and the browser. If you want the users to click a link to play the music like here:

Re: MP3 or audio file and Openbase

2006-06-29 Thread Mike Schrag
or http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:WebObjects/Web_Applications/ Development/Examples/Return_a_File and http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:WebObjects/Web_Applications/ Development/Database_vs_Filesystem has some information that might be helpful On Jun 29, 2006, at 5:02 PM,

How to skip items in a WORepetition ?

2006-06-29 Thread Gavin Eadie
I want to display the contents of an NSArray and WORepetition is the perfect dynamic element to do that. However, I want to complicate the world and be able to suppress some of the entries based on some computation performed on each Array element. It seems I can do this at least two ways:

Re: MP3 or audio file and Openbase

2006-06-29 Thread Chuck Hill
I was trying to find that migrated WODev content and could not. Is there a useful search (e.g. focused on this one wiki book) feature in that Wiki that I am missing? I used to use the Search in Pierre's site all the time! Chuck On Jun 29, 2006, at 2:09 PM, Mike Schrag wrote: or

Re: Binding synchronization timing problems

2006-06-29 Thread David Holt
Hi Miguel,3) You could use and/or look at the code for WOBatchNavigationBar. It does require you to bind to a WODisplayGroup, though. I use them before or after the repetition with no problems.David -- It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make

Re: How to skip items in a WORepetition ?

2006-06-29 Thread Mark Morris
Hello Gavin, This may not be elegant enough ;-) but you could just wrap the contents of the WORepetition in a WOConditional. Regards, Mark On Jun 29, 2006, at 4:13 PM, Gavin Eadie wrote: I want to display the contents of an NSArray and WORepetition is the perfect dynamic element to do

Re: How to skip items in a WORepetition ?

2006-06-29 Thread Paul Lynch
On 29 Jun 2006, at 22:13, Gavin Eadie wrote: I want to display the contents of an NSArray and WORepetition is the perfect dynamic element to do that. However, I want to complicate the world and be able to suppress some of the entries based on some computation performed on each Array

Fwd: MP3 or audio file and Openbase

2006-06-29 Thread Gilles MATHURIN
Début du message réexpédié : De : Gilles MATHURIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date : 29 juin 2006 17:29:17 GMT-04:00 À : Chuck Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Rép : MP3 or audio file and Openbase Thanx for the ressource adress, beside, when i clik on the link you provide me, the browser download an

Fwd: MP3 or audio file and Openbase

2006-06-29 Thread Gilles MATHURIN
Début du message réexpédié : De : Chuck Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date : 29 juin 2006 17:02:41 GMT-04:00 À : Gilles MATHURIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com Objet : Rép : MP3 or audio file and Openbase Why are you using WOEmbeddedObject? Are you using a plugin to play

Fwd: MP3 or audio file and Openbase

2006-06-29 Thread Gilles MATHURIN
In fact, yes i'd like to use a plugin to play the MP3 files, which come from the database… i begin to think that it is not possible using a database… :-/ Début du message réexpédié : De : Gilles MATHURIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date : 29 juin 2006 17:29:17 GMT-04:00 À : Chuck Hill [EMAIL

Re: MP3 or audio file and Openbase

2006-06-29 Thread Chuck Hill
Yes, it is possible. I know many WO sites that do things like this. It is just hard to understand all the pieces the first time. You need two things: 1. The WO components / HTML to define the plugin in HTML 2. A direct action (this is easiest, I think) so you have a URL to dynamically

Re: Jboss 4.0.x deployment

2006-06-29 Thread D Tim Cummings
We are using jboss 4. We are letting jboss handle the connections using the jndi by putting a datasource xml file in the deployment directory (in our case postgres-ds.xml) that was referenced from jboss-web.xml D Tim Cummings On 29/06/2006, at 03:40, David Aspinall wrote: We are not

Re: MP3 or audio file and Openbase

2006-06-29 Thread Mike Schrag
There's gotta be, but I can't find the link at the moment ... I'll post on the admin questions page about it. ms On Jun 29, 2006, at 5:16 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: I was trying to find that migrated WODev content and could not. Is there a useful search (e.g. focused on this one wiki book)

Re: MP3 or audio file and Openbase

2006-06-29 Thread Fabian Peters
Just use http://www.google.com/search?hl=enlr=q=download+site% 3Aen.wikibooks.org%2Fwiki%2FProgramming%3AWebObjectsbtnG=Search? Am 30.06.2006 um 00:49 schrieb Mike Schrag: There's gotta be, but I can't find the link at the moment ... I'll post on the admin questions page about it. ms On

Re: State of WebObjects

2006-06-29 Thread Ian Joyner
On 29/06/2006, at 8:46 AM, Scott Henderson wrote: First, Thank You to all who have responded and participated to my post. Good information. Tim, I am particularly interested in your newbie experience. As I mentioned, OO programming is going to be a new experience for me. I like the