Geesh, after reading this I've realized that I missed a 'minor' detail. hehe
My task is for a current WO application to import data from a new source, which happens to be a given URL. Far as I know it's read-only. (I can't imagine having to rewrite all my WO apps of over 10 years work. yikes, that would be scary) one reply to this subject talked about REST. is this my solution? On 2011-07-13, at 1:12 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: > > On Jul 13, 2011, at 6:57 AM, Calven Eggert wrote: > >> I've just been told that instead of getting data from a database within my >> organization that I should be opening a URL and get the data that way. I >> have no clue how that would be done in Webobjects. Can someone please >> gently lead me in the right direction? > > > Read only? Full CRUD? > > If you still want the result in EOs, then you need to write an EOF adaptor > (e.g. like the JDBCAdaptor and the JNDIAdaptor). That is going to be a good > bit of work. Maybe a lot of work. They want to replace what EOF does with > an HTTP service that will (most probably) be slower. Unless you are using > D2W, you might find that something other than WO is a better option. > > If you just want dictionaries of read-only data, that can be considerably > easier. > > Chuck > > > -- > Chuck Hill Senior Consultant / VP Development > > Practical WebObjects - for developers who want to increase their overall > knowledge of WebObjects or who are trying to solve specific problems. > http://www.global-village.net/products/practical_webobjects > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
