Hi Markus,

On Dec 28, 2010, at 11:01 PM, Markus Ruggiero wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> after some 3 years of absence from WO I have a customer asking me to teach an 
> old D2W application some new things and port it to the new world. The app is 
> currently maintained on WindowsXP with WO 5.2 and the old Project Builder and 
> tools.

Eeew.  :-)


> Some time ago I have done Eclipse/WOlips things on my Mac, but no D2W. What 
> are the currently recommended versions of Eclipse and WOlips? What is the 
> best and easiest strategy to port such an old D2W to Eclipse/WOlips?

These two sites are the places to look:
http://www.wocommunity.org/page/default
http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WOL/Home


> I am primarily looking for strategic advice. One important thing is that the 
> new app must be deployed into the existing environment (I have no influence 
> there and cannot change anything). Thus there will still be WO 5.2 runtime 
> installed and deployment is through JavaWOMonitor. I cannot request 
> installation of new frameworks (e.g. Wonder). Any such addition must be 
> self-contained inside the .woa

That is very easy to do now with embedded frameworks (Wonder, WebObjects, embed 
it all).  The older deployment should be find an app based on a newer WO.  
However, I just remembered that the Java version has changed.  Unless you can 
install a newer JVM, you will probably have to stick with WO 5.2 and a very old 
Wonder version.


> Any good advice? Some (simple) steps I can follow? Step by step outline of 
> the procedures? My WO has become a bit rusty and my D2W knowledge is like 
> "oh, some sentences in the docs seem to be kind of familiar".


Convert the project to Eclipse/WOLips.  You will need to get WO 5.2 "installed" 
on your dev machine first.  That will be a challenge unless your client has the 
install disks as it was license key protected back then.  Your next step is to 
determine if a newer JVM can be installed.  The answer to that will dictate 
your next steps.


Chuck

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