Andrus,
On Jan 21, 2008, at 16:55, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
Hi Florijan,
Nice work.
Cayenne ROP (http://cayenne.apache.org/doc/remote-object-
persistence-guide.html) is the remoting technology that allows to
do things similar to JavaClient, although it deals exclusively with
persistent objects remoting, leaving the task of binding data to a
UI up to the coder.
WebObjects was better at it, provided some UI binding capabilities,
BUT, some people (myself included) thought a different approach was
better.
Now a bindings framework can go a long way in making Swing usable.
I took a shot at creating one a few years ago, but that effort got
canceled due to the lack of time. I am glad somebody else did it
for me :-)
This work is a consequence of me being in exactly the same position
as you. A year and a half ago I started with connecting raw Swing and
WebObjects. Over time this evolved into JBND.
It would be interesting to hear how that works with Cayenne (ROP,
or just straight client-server Swing app).
It would be required for an interested Cayenne person to implement
two interfaces (org.jbnd.DataObject and org.jbnd.DataType), and
possibly do a bit more tweaking on the side. This is completely
described in:
http://web.mac.com/flor385/JBND/doc.html#persistence
The API documentation for the interfaces is there. All of it is
explained as best I could. It is really not a lot of work (and I
sincerely hope somebody will do it). As an example of how it was done
for WebObjects, you can check out org.jbnd.eof.* classes. If this is
done, you have a Cayenne + Swing data binding library.
F
On Jan 21, 2008, at 9:01 PM, Florijan Stamenkovic wrote:
Hi all,
I am happy to say that the databinding library I've been working
on (for WebObjects and Swing) is ready for it's initial release.
The library however is easily extendable for usage with other data
persistence systems and other GUI systems. I am hoping that some
of you Cayenne users would chip in the hour or two needed for
implementing Cayenne support. The website describes in detail how
this can be done.
I have no idea how good the support for making Cayenne based
JavaClient applications is in the standard package, but maybe some
of you could use this.
I'd be happy to include any good implementation of Cayenne support
into the standard distribution.
The library site:
http://web.mac.com/flor385/JBND/
My best,
Florijan Stamenkovic
CNG Havaso Ltd
