Creating a WebObjects Framework using Eclipse


Finally getting around to refactoring my biggest XCode app by creating frameworks in Eclipse and reusing those in XCode. Creating WebObjects frameworks in Eclipse is easy....

Check out the article I wrote here on the WOLips wiki:
http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WOL/Create+a+WebObjects+Framework

And, one more thing...... I have been refactoring out reusable chunks of functionality from a large XCode app into WO frameworks using Eclipse to create all the frameworks in the past week and boy, oh boy, Eclipse leaves XCode in the dust when it comes to java productivity. All we need now is a intuitive WOBuilder replacement in Eclipse for "wiring up" bindings and seeing the overall page structure and we will have the holy grail of WO programming.

And about WOBuilder ...... all I use it for is to get a visual of the structure and what is wrapping what ...... I don't need any of the page preview garbage ....... browsers work just fine for that. I wonder how easy it would be to create some kind of a "tree view" editor not unlike a DOM view of a WebObjects page?

Posted: Tue - January 16, 2007 at 02:40 PM        

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