Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Jean Pierre Malrieu
Has there been any development in a replacement for WOBuilder? Although XCODE is dead I rely quite a lot on some sort of visual binding and element view and so keep on using it for that. Any news would be good - I have seen the thread on the WIKI but that does not have a conclusion - and I

WO used internally by Apple, a bad thing?

2007-07-05 Thread Jean Pierre Malrieu
This post ought to be sent to WO-talk, but I can't post there right now. A lot of people say that because Apple is using WO internally, we need not worry about WO death. I agree with that, but I am starting to wonder whether Apple using WO is a good thing for WO... If Apple had chosen

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Simon McLean
Mike Schrag and I kicked this idea around a while back. We made a ballpark estimate of US$100,000 to US$150,000 in development costs. Still want to contribute financially? :-) Yes why not? That's 100$ for 1000 persons, or 200$ for 500 persons. It seems reasonable to me. I'd certainly buy

Re: WO used internally by Apple, a bad thing?

2007-07-05 Thread Simon McLean
On 5 Jul 2007, at 08:32, Jean Pierre Malrieu wrote: What prevent Apple from publishing clear roadmaps for WO? On the subject of road maps, I don't think there has been any public announcement of what was said at WWDC yet has there ? I have been away for a week, but I'm sure the mailing

Re: WO used internally by Apple, a bad thing?

2007-07-05 Thread Simon McLean
On 5 Jul 2007, at 08:32, Jean Pierre Malrieu wrote: A lot of people say that because Apple is using WO internally, we need not worry about WO death. I don't see Apple's use of it as a reason not to worry about WO death. They tend to do what the hell they like anyway (like deprecating

Re: WO used internally by Apple, a bad thing?

2007-07-05 Thread Lachlan Deck
On 05/07/2007, at 5:32 PM, Jean Pierre Malrieu wrote: This post ought to be sent to WO-talk, but I can't post there right now. A lot of people say that because Apple is using WO internally, we need not worry about WO death. I agree with that, but I am starting to wonder whether Apple using

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Pascal Robert
Le 07-07-05 à 03:12, Jean Pierre Malrieu a écrit : Has there been any development in a replacement for WOBuilder? Although XCODE is dead I rely quite a lot on some sort of visual binding and element view and so keep on using it for that. Any news would be good - I have seen the thread on the

Re: WO used internally by Apple, a bad thing?

2007-07-05 Thread Miguel Arroz
Hi! One thing that Apple has cleared showed it's clients is that they don't specially care about backward compatibility beyond a certain point. If they think there's a clear advantage in doing something, they will do it, like moving to Apache 2, etc. So I don't think that backward

Re: Webobjects XCode

2007-07-05 Thread Cyryl Plotnicki-Chudyk
Chuck Hill pisze: On Jul 4, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Ketema J. Harris wrote: I appreciate the advice. I now have Eclipse up an WOLips installed. I am running through some tutorials and have a bunch to learn. In one of the links provided by Chuck, I noticed that apache can be used as the

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Jean Pierre Malrieu
Le 5 juil. 07 à 09:57, Pascal Robert a écrit : Le 07-07-05 à 03:12, Jean Pierre Malrieu a écrit : Has there been any development in a replacement for WOBuilder? Although XCODE is dead I rely quite a lot on some sort of visual binding and element view and so keep on using it for that. Any

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Simon McLean
Hi Pascal - Have you asked the 82 organisations how much they would pay ? We would buy 3 seats at 400 USD each. Simon On 5 Jul 2007, at 08:57, Pascal Robert wrote: Le 07-07-05 à 03:12, Jean Pierre Malrieu a écrit : Has there been any development in a replacement for WOBuilder?

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Gino Pacitti
I too would pay $400 Gino On 5 Jul 2007, at 09:55, Simon McLean wrote: Hi Pascal - Have you asked the 82 organisations how much they would pay ? We would buy 3 seats at 400 USD each. Simon On 5 Jul 2007, at 08:57, Pascal Robert wrote: Le 07-07-05 à 03:12, Jean Pierre Malrieu a écrit

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Simon McLean
On 5 Jul 2007, at 09:53, Jean Pierre Malrieu wrote: Let's say 500$ for a fully functional, polished EntityModeler / WOBuilder bundle... That would be a fair reward, considering all the stuff Mike gave to the community. Now that is a fine idea. Simon

getting the database values of an object without changing the one in the current editing context

2007-07-05 Thread WO Dev
Hi, I'm not sure my subject is understandable, anyway. Assuming I have an object x, I'm manipulating it in an editing context. At a certain point I need to get the original object (the one from the database) but without changing anything to the one in my editing context. How could I do

DirectAction: NSDictionary of the form values

2007-07-05 Thread Edgar Ra. Klein
Hi guys, I'm having a problem w/ the Dictionary returned by the DirectAction's form values. More precisely, I have a DirectAction w/ some form values like: ...DirectAction.woa/wa/default?key1=value1key2=value2 The method request().formValues() returns an NSDictionary looking like that:

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Jerry W. Walker
Although $500 might be a fair reward for such a tool, I truly doubt that enough parties would pay it to cover Chuck's and Mike's estimates. I think that there are few on this list who individually, or whose companies, would pony up $500 per developer head for an undeveloped piece of

Re: getting the database values of an object without changing the one in the current editing context

2007-07-05 Thread Cyryl Plotnicki-Chudyk
WO Dev wrote: Hi, I'm not sure my subject is understandable, anyway. Assuming I have an object x, I'm manipulating it in an editing context. At a certain point I need to get the original object (the one from the database) but without changing anything to the one in my editing context. How

Re: [Reminder] WebObjects Community Survey 2007 !

2007-07-05 Thread Alexander Spohr
Pascal, is it possible to see the results? atze Am 04.07.2007 um 02:34 schrieb Pascal Robert: I know, it was Canada Day 3 days ago, and now it's Independance Day in the States, but don't forget our community survey !

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Jean Pierre Malrieu
That is collective action. You are never sure others will behave in a cooperative way. But you must trust others in order to get anything happening. So perhaps, instead of saying what you think others will do, you should tell us about what you can be reasonably sure about: what price you

Re: getting the database values of an object without changing the one in the current editing context

2007-07-05 Thread Alexander Spohr
Xavier, maybe you should use a second EOEditingContext to fetch that „original“? Or you migrate to a second edcon before you start to modify? atze Am 05.07.2007 um 12:28 schrieb WO Dev: Hi, I'm not sure my subject is understandable, anyway. Assuming I have an object x, I'm

Re: getting the database values of an object without changing the one in the current editing context

2007-07-05 Thread Ken Anderson
Xavier, EOF does this exact thing when it's deciding what has changed in your object, and what updates it needs to perform. It does this by using the snapshot, which is how I'd recommend you doing this as well. It would help if you clued us in to *why* you need it - so that answers

Re: getting the database values of an object without changing the one in the current editing context

2007-07-05 Thread WO Dev
Thanks Cyryl, Well I was hoping not to have to deal with I have to store the object somewhere before even knowing I might need it's previous state later;) Xavier WO Dev wrote: Hi, I'm not sure my subject is understandable, anyway. Assuming I have an object x, I'm manipulating it in an

Re: getting the database values of an object without changing the one in the current editing context

2007-07-05 Thread WO Dev
Hello Atze:), I could do that. Am I going to have issues if I try to create a local instance in my current editing context? I'll try that, thanks Xavier Xavier, maybe you should use a second EOEditingContext to fetch that „original“? Or you migrate to a second edcon before you start

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Andrus Adamchik
I am skeptical about fundraising in general, but then somehow even losing US political candidates manage to raise tens of millions for their campaigns, so what do I know :-) Good luck! And maybe if you raise the cash upfront (as opposed to trying to recoup the costs by selling licenses

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Mike Schrag
The problem is that we don't have How many licenses would you buy at $X? which is really all that matters. On Jul 5, 2007, at 8:34 AM, Pascal Robert wrote: Yes, the survey is asking that question with price ranges : Some people think that what's missing from Eclipse/WOLips is a graphical

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Pascal Robert
Yes, the survey is asking that question with price ranges : Some people think that what's missing from Eclipse/WOLips is a graphical WOComponent editor to WebObjects Builder. Do you want such a tool, and if yes, how much are you ready to give to have such a tool. Yes, but it must be free

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Mike Schrag
Those estimates were all for starting from scratch, which I believe is what should be done (Apple will not release the source to the original, anyway -- I've brought it up several times over the last couple years). To do a WOBuilder properly, it needs to be rethought. WOBuilder now is

Re: [Reminder] WebObjects Community Survey 2007 !

2007-07-05 Thread Pascal Robert
I will post a preview of the stats this week-end. Pascal, is it possible to see the results? atze Am 04.07.2007 um 02:34 schrieb Pascal Robert: I know, it was Canada Day 3 days ago, and now it's Independance Day in the States, but don't forget our community survey !

Re: DirectAction: NSDictionary of the form values

2007-07-05 Thread Jerry W. Walker
Hi, Edgar, The NSDictionary that you receive from request().formValues() contains NSArray values for each key. WO must presume that the values returned are arrays of values, because some form elements can return an array of values and WO has no way of determining whether a given form

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Gino Pacitti
Can't Apple be persuaded to contribute a small development team that worked with other WO Community members on this... That might bring costs down and offer a soft landing for those of us that like to use a GUI to components and interface design... Gino On 5 Jul 2007, at 14:03, Jeremy

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Jeremy Matthews
Although I understand the speed and the ease of Eclipses' Editor, I must admit that sometimes I miss WOBuilder... I'd gladly pay $500 for a full WOBuilder Replacement...with or without Entity Modeler bundled (Since Mike is working on that anyways...)...maybe 2 licenses. I might be able to

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Pascal Robert
People : I will create a specific survey in a couple of days about WOLips and WOBuilder alternatives, so wait until next Monday (July 9th) to say how much licenses you will buy. It will be way more easier to collect the numbers with a survey :-) The problem is that we don't have How many

Re: DirectAction: NSDictionary of the form values

2007-07-05 Thread Edgar Ra. Klein
Hi, On 05.07.2007, at 14:56, Jean-François Veillette wrote: from your description, it look like 'formValues()' wrap all values in an array (from the doc). formValues() Returns an NSDictionary containing all of the form data with names for keys and

Re: DirectAction: NSDictionary of the form values

2007-07-05 Thread Edgar Ra. Klein
Hi Jerry, On 05.07.2007, at 15:26, Jerry W. Walker wrote: Hi, Edgar, The NSDictionary that you receive from request().formValues() contains NSArray values for each key. WO must presume that the values returned are arrays of values, because some form elements can return an array of

Re: DirectAction: NSDictionary of the form values

2007-07-05 Thread David LeBer
On 5-Jul-07, at 9:26 AM, Jerry W. Walker wrote: Hi, Edgar, The NSDictionary that you receive from request().formValues() contains NSArray values for each key. WO must presume that the values returned are arrays of values, because some form elements can return an array of values and WO

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Michael Warner
I believe that Gino is on the right track here. Having heard Mike Schrag speak at WOWODC, I am sure that he and his associates could create a wonderful (no pun intended) new WOBuilder. But for reasons apart from the financing, such an effort seems ill-advised at this time. The main

Re: DirectAction: NSDictionary of the form values

2007-07-05 Thread Jean-François Veillette
from your description, it look like 'formValues()' wrap all values in an array (from the doc). formValues() Returns an NSDictionary containing all of the form data with names for keys and NSArrays containing the value(s) associated with

Not an Eclipse Plugin

2007-07-05 Thread Sam Barnum
I'd like to vote for this method, not all of us use Eclipse. We have 4 WO developers, and we use IntelliJ. On Jul 5, 2007, at 5:30 AM, Mike Schrag wrote: If we built a WOBuilder, we would really only build one that I would use, too, so it has to not suck (this quite possibly means such

Re: DirectAction: NSDictionary of the form values

2007-07-05 Thread Jerry W. Walker
Hi, David, On Jul 5, 2007, at 9:36 AM, David LeBer wrote: On 5-Jul-07, at 9:26 AM, Jerry W. Walker wrote: Hi, Edgar, The NSDictionary that you receive from request().formValues() contains NSArray values for each key. WO must presume that the values returned are arrays of values,

Re: checking webobject's version

2007-07-05 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 05.07.2007, at 09:52, Angelo Chen wrote: I just installed the weobjects come with June 2007's developer DVD, but any way to check what's the version of this WebObjects? cat /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaWebObjects.framework/Resources/ version.plist That does the trick on Tiger and WO

Re: getting the database values of an object without changing the one in the current editing context

2007-07-05 Thread Chuck Hill
On Jul 5, 2007, at 3:28 AM, WO Dev wrote: Hi, I'm not sure my subject is understandable, anyway. Assuming I have an object x, I'm manipulating it in an editing context. At a certain point I need to get the original object (the one from the database) but without changing anything to the

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Lachlan Deck
On 05/07/2007, at 10:30 PM, Mike Schrag wrote: Those estimates were all for starting from scratch, which I believe is what should be done (Apple will not release the source to the original, anyway -- I've brought it up several times over the last couple years). To do a WOBuilder properly,

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Chuck Hill
On Jul 5, 2007, at 11:16 AM, Lachlan Deck wrote: On 05/07/2007, at 10:30 PM, Mike Schrag wrote: Those estimates were all for starting from scratch, which I believe is what should be done (Apple will not release the source to the original, anyway -- I've brought it up several times over

Re: checking webobject's version

2007-07-05 Thread Florijan Stamenkovic
On Jul 05, 2007, at 17:52, Angelo Chen wrote: Hi, I just installed the weobjects come with June 2007's developer DVD, but any way to check what's the version of this WebObjects? Also I do see /application/Openbase folder, but can't create any new database, any way to use Openbase? Thanks.

Re: checking webobject's version

2007-07-05 Thread Tanmoy Roy
Use the following for WebObjects version: defaults read /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaWebObjects.framework/Resources/Info CFBundleShortVersionString For Openbase I am not so sure. On 7/5/07, Florijan Stamenkovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 05, 2007, at 17:52, Angelo Chen wrote: Hi,

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Ricardo Strausz
There are a lot of good business reasons to _not_ develop this. I notice that everyone wants Mike to do it. I don't see anyone who thinks it is such a good idea that their company should do it. :-) Chuck Wise Chuck! I also would like someone to develop a Cocoa EOF replacement, and pay

Re: getting the database values of an object without changing the one in the current editing context

2007-07-05 Thread WO Dev
Hello Ken, Xavier, EOF does this exact thing when it's deciding what has changed in your object, and what updates it needs to perform. It does this by using the snapshot, which is how I'd recommend you doing this as well. It would help if you clued us in to *why* you need it - so that

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Galen Rhodes
On Jul 5, 2007, at 3:32 PM, Ricardo Strausz wrote: There are a lot of good business reasons to _not_ develop this. I notice that everyone wants Mike to do it. I don't see anyone who thinks it is such a good idea that their company should do it. :-) Chuck Wise Chuck! I also would like

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Chuck Hill
On Jul 5, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Galen Rhodes wrote: I predict that, unless there is a financial reward of some kind, that WOLips development will stagnate and/or come to a complete halt within the next 18 months if not sooner. And yes, that is a challenge to the developers to hopefully

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jul 5, 2007, at 5:30 AM, Mike Schrag wrote: I think about this app all the time, but I just have not yet seen the economics. I asked at WWDC who would pay real money (granted, an unspecified amount) for a WOBuilder and VERY few hands went up in a pretty large room of WO developers. I

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Galen Rhodes
On Jul 5, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: * SNIP * I doubt that very much. The development to date has been developers building what _they_ personally need to get their job done. Most of what is in Entity Modeler and WOComponent Editor are things that Mike need to do his job more

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Steven Mark McCraw
Galen, Take some slow deep breaths before your head explodes. Here's the beauty of an open source project for you: you don't have to use it. If you think it isn't meeting your needs, run along and pay for something that will. If wonder dies, it dies, but right now a lot of people see

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Ken Anderson
Galen, Maybe you've had some bad experiences with open source projects, but in my view, the WO open source world has been growing and growing for many many years. Maybe it's because it's built around a commercial product that has extremely long legs... I don't know, but I don't think

HTTP/1.1 and Chunked transfers

2007-07-05 Thread Lachlan Deck
Hi there, does anyone have any experience with receiving chunked data (or perhaps sending chunked requests specifying the content-length with Axis)? I getting a 411 Length Required response in the client... so I'm trying to ascertain whether there's some commons-httpclient setting to

Re: HTTP/1.1 and Chunked transfers

2007-07-05 Thread Mike Schrag
Post this on the Wonder list and Anjo can probably tell you more ... Wonder has a replacement for WOHttpIO where Anjo implemented support for chunked data. /** * Bugfix class that adds support for chunked content, which a HTTP 1.0 client MUST * support. This is escpecially important for

Re: Get server host from request or url

2007-07-05 Thread Chuck Hill
Hello Benoit, How are you handling sessions? When the Flash client requests a web service, what URL does it use? Chuck On Jul 5, 2007, at 6:56 AM, Benoit Cantin wrote: Dear list, I would like to establish a connexion between a webobjects server and a flash client. To do so, I have

Get server host from request or url

2007-07-05 Thread Benoit Cantin
Dear list, I would like to establish a connexion between a webobjects server and a flash client. To do so, I have to transfer the server's FQDN, or the server's IP adress to the flash client as a flash variable passed to the swf. The flash client, then, communicate through web services

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Louis Demers
Sorry, this has accumulted inside of me for months, listening to the eclipse evangelism..., but mostly to xcode/wobuilder tools being disparaged and ridiculed, along with those who prefer them ... On 5-Jul-07, at 16:36 , Chuck Hill wrote: While it is not flashy, it is far more productive

Let's cool down ! Was : WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Pascal Robert
Ok people, let's cool down a bit. It's not easy with that big Sun over us, but please wait until I get my WOLips survey up and running. This way, everyone will be able to voice their opinion in a structured way :-) It should be up before tomorrow night.

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Chuck Hill
Really tired of what I see a pointless conversation, but there are a couple of things I feel a need to address. On Jul 5, 2007, at 5:22 PM, Louis Demers wrote: To those who think WO will not go away because it's too significant a framework and because Apple uses it, think MacApp... A very

Re: WO used internally by Apple, a bad thing?

2007-07-05 Thread Ray Kiddy
On Jul 5, 2007, at 12:32 AM, Jean Pierre Malrieu wrote: This post ought to be sent to WO-talk, but I can't post there right now. A lot of people say that because Apple is using WO internally, we need not worry about WO death. I agree with that, but I am starting to wonder whether Apple

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Mike Schrag
Lastly, everybody is free to do what they want and I certainly agree the we do not have any right to expect others to do work freely for any of us. However I do not understand why there has to be a business case for developing a WOBuilder replacement ? that it must be absolutely profitable

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Mike Schrag
As usual, Chuck says the same thing I do, but with 1/4 of the words :) On Jul 5, 2007, at 9:29 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: a bunch of stuff ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list

Re: HTTP/1.1 and Chunked transfers

2007-07-05 Thread Lachlan Deck
Just bringing part of the discussion back here - as I don't think that when chunking is turned on in the Axis client that the request is making it to WO in the first place before getting a 411 error code. Anyone have any ideas on this? e.g., anyone successfully using chunking transfers

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Clark Mueller
I was one of those who raised his hand - but honestly, I no longer feel the same way, so it's even fewer than those few. Having digested some of this discussion going on for the past several days, I've arrived at the conclusion that, as many people have indicated, the current WOComponent

Re: Webobjects XCode

2007-07-05 Thread Ketema J. Harris
there's a gentoo WO installation guide Followed your guide and have the ebuild, however i notice you have a requirement for dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.15 I already have dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.08 installed as well as dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03-r15 can/will your ebuild work with those java

Re: WOBuilder Replacement

2007-07-05 Thread Chuck Hill
Hi Clark, Thank you for a reasoned response in what has become a rather feisty thread! On Jul 5, 2007, at 9:57 PM, Clark Mueller wrote: I was one of those who raised his hand - but honestly, I no longer feel the same way, so it's even fewer than those few. Having digested some of this