Re: Quick survey: who's deploying on VMWare?

2011-02-25 Thread John Ours
We run a large portion of our production infrastructure on VMWare ESX, including WO. It works extremely well but it does take some knowledge and experience to keep it running smoothly. A lot of the issues you hear about bad networking, intermittent drives, time sync, etc. are from either

Re: PostgreSQL [Off-topic]

2010-10-20 Thread John Ours
On Oct 20, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Kieran Kelleher wrote: So, for mysql, a new user needs to pay attention to a few things so as not to fall on your face with dismal performance and problems with the default install, such as: - Create a my.cnf (start with one of the example files and use the

Re: Ajax fly-out menu

2010-03-10 Thread John Ours
I'm writing my own Ajax component using bits of AjaxUpdateLink. The project I did that on wasn't WO...I was using jQuery for ajax. I don't know offhand how to coerce the Wonder stuff into firing onmouseover. Ben On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:22 PM, John Ours jo...@mac.com wrote

Re: Ajax fly-out menu

2010-03-09 Thread John Ours
On Mar 9, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Benjamin Chew wrote: I'm attempting to code a fly-out menu resembling the one shown at the top of this page (http://www.cssmenus.co.uk/flyout.html), with the difference being that I want to make an Ajax request every time I hover over a menu item to pull the

Re: Ajax fly-out menu

2010-03-09 Thread John Ours
On Mar 9, 2010, at 7:04 PM, Benjamin Chew wrote: I've been down this road before. In practice the callback is too slow and the menu isn't really usable. IME if you have a hierarchy that's that big you're best to switch to another paradigm like a treeview. John Hmm... even if

Re: changing database servers

2009-11-13 Thread John Ours
On Nov 13, 2009, at 7:20 PM, Tim Worman wrote: On Nov 13, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: Hi Tim, On Nov 13, 2009, at 1:54 PM, Tim Worman wrote: All: I may be in a situation for one of my apps (maybe more) where we will be switching database servers. If we did this the change

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-08 Thread John Ours
Cayenne is surely the closest ORM. I'd pick GWT or Tapestry for the presentation depending on the type of application it is. GWT and Cayenne don't mix that well because of the JS serialization but it does work. John On Oct 8, 2009, at 7:04 PM, Daniel Mejia wrote: Hi all, If you

Re: What could we do to convince Apple to opensource WebObjects ?

2009-09-16 Thread John Ours
On Sep 16, 2009, at 8:00 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: but I can't think of anything else that might motivate them to make any significant changes. Well the usual motivation is twofold: (1) to allow the product to evolve faster and cheaper because of community involvement and/or (2) to increase

Re: What could we do to convince Apple to opensource WebObjects ?

2009-09-16 Thread John Ours
On Sep 16, 2009, at 10:24 PM, Andrew Lindesay wrote: Hi John; On the path to WO 5.4.3 over 2007/2008, and simply when I'm trying to understand specific behaviours, not having the source-code was/is quite annoying -- I would have thought that it would be beneficial for Apple to have all

Re: FOSS Reporting Libraries?

2009-09-04 Thread John Ours
I use Jasper for reporting along with a wrapper someone posted a while back to create a JRDataSource from EOGenericRecords. It was called WCJRDataSource...I can't find it again on the web so it's attached. Then I run the report with something like this: public static

Re: WOWODC 09 Videos

2009-09-04 Thread John Ours
On Sep 4, 2009, at 7:10 PM, David LeBer wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Ted Archibald ted.archib...@gmail.com wrote: Any word on the WOWODC 09 videos yet? Which WOWODC Ted? West (June) or East (August)? Either / both? John ___ Do

Re: Nested WOSwitchComponents

2009-09-01 Thread John Ours
On Aug 31, 2009, at 5:15 PM, David Holt wrote: Are you saying that I can actually use D2W to 1. allow the user to build a form, then 2. display the form 3. allow the form to be used to capture data If you're looking for inspiration as you work, I think this project is

Re: Does Snow Leopard play nice with Eclipse/WOLips?

2009-08-29 Thread John Ours
No problems yet here. Did the upgrade last night and everything's working fine. Eclipse 3.4.2, WOLips 3.4.5705, Java 1.6.0_15. On Aug 29, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Ricardo J. Parada wrote: Hi All, Has anybody installed the latest cat? Does it play nice with Eclipse 3.4.2 and WOLips? :-)

Re: Defining child Entities.

2009-08-11 Thread John Ours
On Aug 11, 2009, at 7:27 AM, Gustavo Pizano wrote: Hello david... UU my life gets better htne because Im using Mysql. On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:16 PM, David Avendasora webobje...@avendasora.com wrote: Most DBs handle this situation by allowing you to defer constraints, which is

ERXSwitchEmbeddedPage and AjaxTree

2009-08-02 Thread John Ours
Has anyone had success loading a page with an AjaxTree into a ERXSwitchEmbeddedPage? This seems to cause an infinite loop for me during the ajax request to expand a node...and try as I might to understand Mike's description of how that thing works I can't really grasp why the loop is

Re: Odd request - WebObjects URLs

2009-07-30 Thread John Ours
Exactly, thanks Mike and Chuck. I was checking things like WOComponent but that makes more sense. John On Jul 29, 2009, at 5:32 PM, Mike Schrag wrote: WOContext.componentActionURL ms On Jul 29, 2009, at 5:31 PM, John Ours wrote: I know that WOComponentRequestHandler is the class that's

Odd request - WebObjects URLs

2009-07-29 Thread John Ours
I know that WOComponentRequestHandler is the class that's responsible for deciphering the wo URLs into the session id, context, etc. Does anyone know what part of the framework is responsible for generating those? Just curious mostly... ___ Do

Re: [JC] update conflict handling

2009-07-21 Thread John Ours
On Jul 21, 2009, at 10:49 AM, Stamenkovic Florijan wrote: On Jul 20, 2009, at 23:59, John Ours wrote: Now, my concern is that making this call from the client pops the notification so the server doesn't see it, and for this very controlled scenario that works fine. But I'd need to call

Re: [JC] update conflict handling

2009-07-21 Thread John Ours
On Jul 21, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: On Jul 20, 2009, at 8:59 PM, John Ours wrote: so what if I get some other type of notification in there? This appears to be the same call EODistributedObjectStore makes in its _send routine, and I'd hate to pop a notification

Re: [JC] update conflict handling

2009-07-20 Thread John Ours
On Jul 14, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Chuck Hill wrote: On Jul 14, 2009, at 7:29 AM, David Avendasora wrote: Wouldn't calling clientSideRequestGetNotifications() on the client trigger an automatic copying of the client-side EditingContext back to the server, which would then cause the server

Re: JavaClient update conflicts

2009-07-15 Thread John Ours
On Jul 15, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Stamenkovic Florijan wrote: On Jul 15, 2009, at 00:38, John Ours wrote: I am not able to reproduce this problem Also, what is your setup? I am on 5.4.2, no Wonder. I tested this with 5.4.3, no wonder, and no JBND on this form. Server is CentOS 5. I cycled

Re: JavaClient update conflicts

2009-07-14 Thread John Ours
On Jul 14, 2009, at 10:19 AM, Stamenkovic Florijan wrote: Do you have simple code to reproduce? Can you share it? No, I am seeing this in our complex proprietary app. However, it should be extremely easy to mimic. Essentially, take your JC app, run two client apps concurrently

Re: [OT] Safari Problem

2009-05-15 Thread John Ours
Oh my! You're right blush Looks like I've got my work cut out for me today... On May 15, 2009, at 9:36 AM, Phillip Hutchings wrote: I suggest you check the source code of your front page, Safari is right. On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 01:31, John Ours jo...@mac.com wrote: OK, totally off

Re: Using Jmeter to test WO

2009-05-08 Thread John Ours
On May 8, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Antoine LAGIER wrote: We try to use a simple test with Jmeter to test a WO dev. so we need to get and set the wosid (wosid = 3V8YgnSQikFjJleLOXbGzw ) and to get and set the number of the instance (/2 ) in the Jmeter process You don't actually need to get

EOQualifier or...?

2009-04-22 Thread John Ours
I have a situation where I have an entity Item that is related to many Picture items. I'm trying to fetch all Items that have no related Pictures...in sql I would write a query like: SELECT * FROM Item i LEFT JOIN Picture p ON i.id = p.itemID WHERE p.id is null In other words I'd like to

Re: JavaClient offline storage / replication

2009-04-15 Thread John Ours
On Apr 15, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Stamenkovic Florijan wrote: And tougher still if the data you are caching can get modified on the server while the client is disconnected. Then you have some interesting update conflicts to handle. This can be a real tough nut to crack. Yeah, data

Re: JavaClient offline storage / replication

2009-04-15 Thread John Ours
On Apr 15, 2009, at 1:24 PM, David Avendasora wrote: On Apr 15, 2009, at 1:13 PM, John Ours wrote: We do these sort of occasionally-connected systems on the .NET platform a lot using MSSQL Desktop - MSSQL Server replication. So, MS SQL on the server AND client? Was that Chuck that I

Re: JavaClient offline storage / replication

2009-04-15 Thread John Ours
On Apr 15, 2009, at 5:52 PM, Stamenkovic Florijan wrote: On Apr 15, 2009, at 17:32, Lachlan Deck wrote: On 16/04/2009, at 1:51 AM, Stamenkovic Florijan wrote: It would also open up a can of worms too. With normal connections you can get an optimistic locking failure and can present this

Re: [OT] local persistence ORM

2009-04-10 Thread John Ours
things I always mean to look in to and then never do. Supposed to be very light. John On Apr 09, 2009, at 23:07, John Ours wrote: What about combining Cayenne backed with H2? John ___ Do not post admin requests to the list

Re: [OT] local persistence ORM

2009-04-09 Thread John Ours
What about combining Cayenne backed with H2? John On Apr 9, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Stamenkovic Florijan wrote: Nope... 1) I am not allowed to bundle all of WO into my client app. 2) This should be light-weight. Both in terms of the API and the library size. WO is neither. Thx, F On Apr 09,

Re: JavaClient session timeout?

2009-03-30 Thread John Ours
On Mar 30, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Stamenkovic Florijan wrote: I'd be happy to implement the ping system, and put it into WOJCKit, if somebody else has the time to test it. I am wy too busy at the moment to deal with that. Anyone interested? Certainly, I'm going to need to go down this

Re: Mixing D2JC with Non-Direct Java Client

2009-03-26 Thread John Ours
On Mar 26, 2009, at 10:28 AM, David Avendasora wrote: Hi John, Flor, other WO JC developers I have added some things to my Client-Side EOGenericRecord class that I think will allow for _very_ easy integration of D2JC features (lists and forms) to any time of WO Java Client app. But since

Re: Mixing D2JC with Non-Direct Java Client

2009-03-26 Thread John Ours
On Mar 26, 2009, at 2:35 PM, David Avendasora wrote: Now that I think about it... do you have a user.d2wmodel file? If not, maybe instead throwing an error or guessing if it can't find the FormTask for the Entity you specified, it just doesn't do anything. No, I didn't have one.

Re: Mixing D2JC with Non-Direct Java Client

2009-03-26 Thread John Ours
On Mar 26, 2009, at 2:01 PM, David Avendasora wrote: I believe so. In my D2JC app, I get a new window with the form in there. I'm assuming it's a JFrame, but then again, I've never written a single line of Swing, so I can only guess at what WebObjects is doing behind the scenes to do

Re: Java Client (topic of the day!)

2009-03-25 Thread John Ours
On Mar 25, 2009, at 6:22 PM, Stamenkovic Florijan wrote: Cool to see that the hard work is being put to use :D For a while it seemed like Dave and I were the only ones out there... You know I was just telling someone here that WebObjects is the best kept secret in web development, and

Re: WebObjects Installer CD for Windows

2009-03-06 Thread John Ours
On Mar 6, 2009, at 4:26 PM, Q wrote: I think the problem you are having is that you cannot use -cp and - jar at the same time. Q is correct. You want to use something like this (which works for me): java -cp wo.jar;woinst.jar run That is start java with wo and woinst on the class

Re: Need some advice (iframe)

2009-02-26 Thread John Ours
On Feb 26, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Chuck Hill wrote: Maybe you can do something similar with the IFrame, return some JS that determines content size and resizes the frame. I don't know if that is even possible. I saw a project that did this once. The approach was something like this:

Re: ADC has tutorial on WebObjects using WOLips

2009-02-23 Thread John Ours
On Feb 23, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Pascal Robert wrote: So I guess we can expect documentation about RoR in the coming months :-) ___ http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html ___ Do not post admin

Re: ADC has tutorial on WebObjects using WOLips

2009-02-23 Thread John Ours
On Feb 23, 2009, at 2:52 PM, Mike Schrag wrote: The WO one was actually written by Apple tech pubs, so my theory still stands :) Mike, I haven't been around this list very long...but long enough to know your theory usually does stand ;-) Thanks for the correction. John

Standalone Entity Modeler

2009-01-30 Thread John Ours
There's probably something easy I'm missing here...but how do I use the standalone Entity Modeler with the Postgres plugin? When I open one of those models it doesn't verify because the prototypes are missing... Thx, John ___ Do not post admin

Re: Standalone Entity Modeler

2009-01-30 Thread John Ours
On Jan 30, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Mike Schrag wrote: Your life will just be easier if you use Eclipse, btw. Oh yeah, it all works great from Eclipse...I just found a shiny new toy and thought I'd play with it. I'll stick with Eclipse 'till I have more time to fiddle. Thanks Mike!

Re: webobjects installer crashing

2009-01-22 Thread John Ours
I've seen this once before and IIRC it's not specific to WO. I believe it was from an old (bad?) install of GraphKit. See: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1206377 and http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?p=464643 On Jan 22, 2009, at 7:30 PM, Fred Wells wrote:

Re: Altering EOModel

2009-01-20 Thread John Ours
On Tuesday, January 20, 2009, at 05:50AM, Susanne Schneider susanne.schnei...@interactive-systems.de wrote: There is a lot of advantage of beeing mostly generic, but there are restrictions too. For example the implementation of simple new features, like a new report, can be more complex than

Re: Altering EOModel

2009-01-19 Thread John Ours
On Jan 19, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Stavros Panidis wrote: my customer is a major department in a public hospital. Each time they decide to perform an experiment and take in account different measurements. No one can predict this. So they need to have the ability to create and/or alter existing

Re: Wonder AjaxSlider

2009-01-14 Thread John Ours
On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:40 AM, Chuck Hill wrote: On Jan 13, 2009, at 9:35 PM, John Ours wrote: On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:11 AM, Chuck Hill wrote: On Jan 12, 2009, at 7:24 AM, John Ours wrote: Hi All, Quick question about the Ajax Slider component in Wonder. What is the rationale behind

Re: an Ajax Drag and Drop question

2009-01-14 Thread John Ours
On Jan 14, 2009, at 10:04 AM, Mike Schrag wrote: Is possible to update an AjaxContainerId after the drag and drop action? Doesn't the AjaxExample drag and drop example do this? Yep, look at the DragAndDropLists example. The other one just updates with Javascript. John

Re: Wonder AjaxSlider

2009-01-13 Thread John Ours
On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:11 AM, Chuck Hill wrote: On Jan 12, 2009, at 7:24 AM, John Ours wrote: Hi All, Quick question about the Ajax Slider component in Wonder. What is the rationale behind the OnChangeServer binding? The behavior seems to be that if the binding is set - regardless

Wonder AjaxSlider

2009-01-12 Thread John Ours
Hi All, Quick question about the Ajax Slider component in Wonder. What is the rationale behind the OnChangeServer binding? The behavior seems to be that if the binding is set - regardless of its value - an ajax post occurs to set the value. A quick peek at the source confirms that's