On Oct 17, 2013, at 11:03 AM, Flavio Donadio <fla...@donadio.com.br> wrote:

> Dru,
> 
> 
> I am not sure if I understand you, but here it goes!
> 
>> Actually, there is no reason CoreData can't be used in this manner, but 
>> there are things that will have to be dealt with outside of CoreData.  How 
>> do you deal with two people making changes to the same record concurrently 
>> as an example ( this is not an issue exclusive to CoreData, but multi-user 
>> design ).
> 
> The approach that Brad and I are talking about involves CoreData *only* in 
> the client to manage a local cache of data objects that would be persisted 
> after (and if) edited. This makes it easy to use bindings on the interface, 
> solving *one* of the problems we discussed earlier on this thread.
> 
> Instead of persisting data on a "local" NSPersistentStore (XML, SQLite, 
> whatever), you replace it with an NSIncrementalStore subclass that 
> communicates with a web/application server on the internet or LAN. This app 
> server becomes the persistent store and, ideally, would deal with the 
> concurrency and locking.
> 
> This app server, these days, is commonly a RESTful web service (written in 
> Rails, PHP, WebObjects/WOnder or whatever), hence the popularity of 
> AFIncrementalStore/AFRESTClient.

No, I grasp that, but if you use CareData on the server as well, you get into 
issues where things are a little more complex.


> 
>> I find this frustrating, because EO was truly revolutionary and even today 
>> competes well against similar projects, and it hasn't been actively updated 
>> for at LEAST 
>> 5 years.  
> 
> Well, the guys on the webobjects-dev list would strongly disagree! :)

I should have noted, By Apple.  The WOnder guys area  whole different ball of 
wax.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Flavio



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