Re: An Introduction to WebObjects, in Swift

2018-06-02 Thread Gavin Eadie
Why? Because it’s sweet and naughty at the same time, and we need some levity in this increasingly awful world .. > On Jun 2, 2018, at 11:02 PM, Aaron Rosenzweig wrote: > > That’s cool - I read through it quickly. You’ve spent a lot of time getting > this far. Perhaps you have the answer to t

Re: excelgeneration problem :(

2017-02-08 Thread Gavin Eadie
Apologies .. I shouldn't rely on decade old memories. > On Feb 8, 2017, at 12:15 PM, Theodore Petrosky wrote: > > I have also never had a problem with mixing inline with WOD implementations. > I finally found my error, and it was my stupidity. ___

Re: excelgeneration problem :(

2017-02-08 Thread Gavin Eadie
> On Feb 8, 2017, at 10:34 AM, Ralf Schuchardt wrote: > > I don’t believe you can mix inline and WOD styles in a component. You may try > inlining SheetsForDate and emptying the WOD file. .. You certainly can’t mix styles. You may even have to delete (not just empty) the WOD file for inlining

Re: State of the Community presentation

2016-06-25 Thread Gavin Eadie
Good conversation .. thanks everyone .. Gavin On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 11:16 PM, Pascal Robert wrote: > Hi guys, > > if you wish to participate in the State of the Community talk, please join > the GoToWebminar meeting this Saturday at 11am EST. > > How to register: > https://attendee.gotowebinar

Re: Thank's for the presentation « From EOF to Cayenne »

2016-06-24 Thread Gavin Eadie
+1 On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Jérémy DE ROYER < jeremy.dero...@ingencys.net> wrote: > Thank's for the presentation « From EOF to Cayenne » > > Jérémy > > > ___ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mail

Re: Follow up on closure

2016-05-12 Thread Gavin Eadie
> On May 12, 2016, at 3:40 PM, Pascal Robert wrote: > > And the shortfall have been paid. .. excellent news ! ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsu

Re: Follow up on closure

2016-05-12 Thread Gavin Eadie
> On May 12, 2016, at 2:53 PM, David LeBer wrote: > > I've purchased a sponsorship, but if there is still a shortfall, you can > count on me to chip in a little more. .. does a "sponsorship" help Pascal’s shortfall? I assume so since several messages have indicated that’s what people are d

Re: Closure of WOCommunity Association

2016-05-11 Thread Gavin Eadie
> On May 11, 2016, at 7:18 PM, Lon Varscsak wrote: > > I agree with Chuck, if you're out of pocket, I'll be happy to share the load. > .. I’m out of the WebObjects business now, probably permanently, but I’ll put $200 in the pot even though I’m not going to the WOWODC. Pascal has done stel

Re: Sad news

2016-03-31 Thread Gavin Eadie
> On Mar 31, 2016, at 12:37 PM, Jean Pierre Malrieu wrote: > > According to a French site he had been involved in WebObjects first > developments and in the transition to the java version. .. a nice (old) article about early days, with a little more context for Francois Jouaux: http://www

Help with a Wonder_7 change to NSArray

2016-01-03 Thread Gavin Eadie
I’ve been away from my WebObjects project for nearly a year and returned to it to move it from SourceForge to GitHub. In the process I upped to the latest Wonder, Eclipse and Java 8. I got surprising few places that I needed to make adjustments, but one caught me out. What was: NSArray

Re: Problem with %z in NSTimestampFormatter

2015-07-23 Thread Gavin Eadie
> On Jul 22, 2015, at 10:47 AM, Pascal Robert wrote: > > %S%z %S-%z ? ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https:

Re: did something change in WebResources ?

2015-07-02 Thread Gavin Eadie
.. got it. Somehow, the "generate bundles" WOLips build preference had been checked on. Checking it off resolved the problem. On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Gavin Eadie wrote: > I've come back to an old-ish project after testing with Eclipse 4.5 > and see a change in be

did something change in WebResources ?

2015-07-02 Thread Gavin Eadie
I've come back to an old-ish project after testing with Eclipse 4.5 and see a change in behavior. The question is whether I need to look for some error in my setup, or if something changed in the development environment while I wan't paying attention? Specifically, I have some structure in my Web

Re: WOLips update site for Eclipse 4.4 (Luna)

2015-05-04 Thread Gavin Eadie
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 8:02 AM, David Avendasora wrote: > I’d suggest creating the .wod files and tell Git to ignore them for now > until you, or someone else, can track down the bug. I’m sure you could > easily create them all with some form of terminal touch magic… > I'm convinced, Dave. You'

Re: WOLips update site for Eclipse 4.4 (Luna)

2015-05-02 Thread Gavin Eadie
I downloaded the WOLips source tonight to look for why absent WOD files cause NPEs and scanned it for likely places, but this is not code I've ever looked at before and it feels like needle-in-haystack time! I also scanned the code commit messages to see if I could find where this behavior might h

Re: WOLips update site for Eclipse 4.4 (Luna)

2015-04-30 Thread Gavin Eadie
I don’t recall for certain, but have a nagging feeling that Apple’s inline binding implementation (which I use) is enabled by the absence of a *.wod file. It’s been years and years since I tripped over this and my memory may be faulty (it may be a zero byte *.wod has the same effect). > On Apr

Re: WOLips update site for Eclipse 4.4 (Luna)

2015-04-30 Thread Gavin Eadie
It's the missing *.wod that kills the component editor. On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Gavin Eadie wrote: > OK .. Yosemite with none of Java, WebObjects, Eclipse, etc installed: > > Install Java SE 7, Luna 4.4.2, WOLips for Luna from Jenkins (WOLips only; > not WOLips Goodi

Re: WOLips update site for Eclipse 4.4 (Luna)

2015-04-30 Thread Gavin Eadie
s" but I wasn't expecting trouble so early and it might have been set to happen before "WOLips Goodies" was installed (like after "Main.WOD" was deleted). I'm going to back up and check, but wanted to let you know a fresh install can fail. On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:

Re: WOLips update site for Eclipse 4.4 (Luna)

2015-04-30 Thread Gavin Eadie
I’m not understanding your “uninstalling” reference, so pardon me if I’m being stupid. I deleted my entire old (v3.7) Eclipse directory [Time Machine is my friend if I need to revert to last week’s old software], downloaded a fresh Luna 4.4.2 (same release as yours), and told it to add the WOLi

Re: WOLips update site for Eclipse 4.4 (Luna)

2015-04-30 Thread Gavin Eadie
d add up to 100. > > I don’t know if that info helps at all… There might be another preference > that is involved in the process, but I’m not sure what to tell you to > search for. I’ll look at mine and let you know what I find. > > Dave > > > > > > On Apr 30, 2

Re: WOLips update site for Eclipse 4.4 (Luna)

2015-04-30 Thread Gavin Eadie
workspace. If Dave/Hugi want to work with me on this, we can go off-list for that, else I'll start afresh. cat org.objectstyle.wolips.wodclipse.core.prefs eclipse.preferences.version=1 org.objectstyle.wolips.componenteditor.sashWeights=1000 On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Gavin Eadie

Re: WOLips update site for Eclipse 4.4 (Luna)

2015-04-29 Thread Gavin Eadie
You're a jolly bunch of clowns! I love you guys!! On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 7:48 PM, David Avendasora wrote: > > On Apr 29, 2015, at 4:14 PM, Gavin Eadie wrote: > > .. you are a wonderful human being! > > > On Apr 29, 2015, at 6:10 PM, Gavin Eadie wrote: > >

Re: WOLips update site for Eclipse 4.4 (Luna)

2015-04-29 Thread Gavin Eadie
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Hugi Thordarson wrote: > .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/ > deleting this file fixed the problem .. many thanks. The file contained the following: gavin$ cat org.objectstyle.wolips.wodclipse.core.prefs eclipse.preferences.version=1 org.o

Re: WOLips update site for Eclipse 4.4 (Luna)

2015-04-29 Thread Gavin Eadie
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Gavin Eadie wrote: > Looks like it's running with the Java 8 VM .. from what I've read that > would cause trouble . Nope! Running the 1.7.0_79 VM fails the same way. ___ Do not post admin requests t

Re: WOLips update site for Eclipse 4.4 (Luna)

2015-04-29 Thread Gavin Eadie
Looks like it's running with the Java 8 VM .. from what I've read that would cause trouble .. On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Gavin Eadie wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 7:44 AM, David Avendasora < > webobje...@avendasora.com> wrote: > >> I have pulled

Re: WOLips update site for Eclipse 4.4 (Luna)

2015-04-29 Thread Gavin Eadie
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 7:44 AM, David Avendasora wrote: > I have pulled several changes into WOLips since getting the build working > - Including a fix for this EXACT issue. > > Make sure you have at least build 33 (4.4.20150427.33) > > We are now on build 37 BTW! > hmm .. reinstalled Eclipse 4

Re: WOLips update site for Eclipse 4.4 (Luna)

2015-04-27 Thread Gavin Eadie
Kudos, gentlemen .. > On Apr 26, 2015, at 12:39 PM, Ken Anderson wrote: > >> WOLips for Eclipse 4.4 (Luna) is now successfully building on the >> WOCommunity Jenkins server! ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobject

Re: Creating the perfect error page

2015-04-27 Thread Gavin Eadie
> On Apr 27, 2015, at 11:11 AM, Gavin Eadie wrote: > > A suggestion that might be over-kill: A button for “send error to developer” > (maybe if, and only if, a Property with a target email exists). .. as pointed out by others, probably not for production, but I could imagine a pro

Re: Creating the perfect error page

2015-04-27 Thread Gavin Eadie
Very, very nice .. A suggestion that might be over-kill: A button for “send error to developer” (maybe if, and only if, a Property with a target email exists). I get screenshots from customers now, if they know how to make them; or copy/paste emails if they know where to send them .. > On Apr

Re: wotaskd on Yosemite

2015-04-26 Thread Gavin Eadie
Excuse my slightly intemperate response to this, directed as much to myself as anyone else, but this problem keeps arising year after year and there is absolutely no reason why wotaskd (or any other woapp) shouldn’t detect that it can’t write to its Log/ directory and either report that fact and

Tracing EditingContext lifecycle ?

2015-02-07 Thread Gavin Eadie
Having inherited some code, I'm inspecting how it uses ECs (actually, ERXECs) and wonder if there are delegates (or other mechanism) that could intercept creation, usage, and, most importantly, disposing of these beasties. The code is convoluted, using too many ECs, and somewhat heavy with static

Re: Wonder 6.1.1 is out

2014-02-10 Thread Gavin Eadie
Nicely done, everyone .. Gavin On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Johann Werner wrote: > Hi list, > > it has been a long time but finally Wonder 6.1.1 is officially out. Point > your browser to the release page on github > https://github.com/wocommunity/wonder/releases to get everything you > ne

Doing database creation before EOF gets involved ?

2014-01-30 Thread Gavin Eadie
I'm working on a WebObjects project which uses a database of minor complexity, and am wrestling mentally with finding a good way to let the first run create the database. Currently, the first run needs the EOModel's connection record to find the database (which is created my hand, but empty), and

Re: interesting URL I landed on

2013-08-10 Thread Gavin Eadie
It's certainly ancient .. I used it as an example when I was pitching WebObjects twelve (?) years ago. On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Theodore Petrosky wrote: > i viewed the page source, OMG was it ugly. Completely table based with all > that ugly Capitalization of everything that makes it har

Re: WOCommunity membership and goals / MontageJS

2013-04-08 Thread Gavin Eadie
On Feb 13, 2013, at 6:46 PM, prob...@macti.ca wrote: > Anyone who went to WOWODC 2009 knows the origin of Montage. .. It was shown at the WWDC too, in a small session that got people very excited. I never thought it would see the light of day. Thanks for drawing attention to it. (and this is

Re: How to contribute ?

2013-01-14 Thread Gavin Eadie
44 PM, Johann Werner wrote: > > Hi Gavin, > > Am 14.01.2013 um 20:55 schrieb Gavin Eadie : > >> On Jan 14, 2013, at 12:25 PM, James Cicenia wrote: >> >>> Make sure in your Eclipse Preferences --> WOLips--> Build Preferences >>> settings yo

How to contribute ?

2013-01-14 Thread Gavin Eadie
On Jan 14, 2013, at 12:25 PM, James Cicenia wrote: > Make sure in your Eclipse Preferences --> WOLips--> Build Preferences > settings you don't have "Generate Bundle" checked. > > That has bit me twice now and consumed many frustrating hours. A diversion from a grumpy Gavin using "Generate Bu

Re: mod_WebObject for Raspberry Pi

2013-01-10 Thread Gavin Eadie
On Jan 8, 2013, at 2:28 AM, Bastian Triller wrote: > If you're using raspbian, it should compile with the same options as on > amd64/i386. > I'll give that a try, when i'm done with testing on amd64. On Jan 10, 2013, at 10:40 AM, Johan Henselmans wrote: > As far as I remember I just downloade

mod_WebObject for Raspberry Pi

2013-01-05 Thread Gavin Eadie
Before I head off the path myself, I'm wondering if anyone has built mod_WebObjects.so for a Raspberry Pi. The lack of it is all that standing between me and my WOApp running on a $35 platform! .. Gavin ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They w

[no subject]

2012-09-17 Thread Gavin Eadie
more detail, and can pass their details to my sponsor. My latest release is on SourceForge; release documentation is in work. svn co https://pachyderm.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pachyderm/tags/3.0.0 Gavin Eadie ramsayc...@me.com ___ Do not post admin

NEXT_ROOT + embedding + unix/Linux

2012-06-25 Thread Gavin Eadie
If you build an application with all its frameworks embedded, the environment variable NEXT_ROOT is never used. If you then deploy this app on a non-Windows/non-MacOSX system, the launch script "xxx.woa/xxx" will terminate because NEXT_ROOT is not defined, and the app will not launch. I suspect t

womp and "Invalid XML Request"

2011-10-30 Thread Gavin Eadie
I've read the several threads about womp and "access denied" but I'm getting "Invalid XML Request" as a response to womp/instanceRequest er.extensions.appserver.ERXRequest: ...woa/womp/instanceRequest formValues={ STATISTICS "); } er.extensions.appserver.ERXResponse: content= NO I

Re: App Engine supports Java

2009-04-08 Thread Gavin Eadie
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:30 PM, David Holt wrote: > I found this little snippet from way back in 03: > > Damon Clinkscales's "Object Persistence Approaches" presentation further > compared JDO and EJB with WebObjects's Enterprise Objects Framework (EOF). > EOF is a third-party object persistence

Re: www.apple.com/webobjects

2008-09-22 Thread Gavin Eadie
On Sep 22, 2008, at 6:01 PM, Ash Mishra wrote: Am I late to the party, or have other people noticed that http://www.apple.com/webobjects which used to provide a product overview page, now just redirects to: http://developer.apple.com/tools/webobjects/ Guess I'm just surprised that they have lo

Re: A little hint

2008-08-21 Thread Gavin Eadie
On Aug 21, 2008, at 4:55 AM, Simon McLean wrote: If we need to set a property and make absolutely sure that it doesn't get replaced by another framework, or even the application itself, we put it in WebObjects.properties. If i remember correctly, the WebObjects.properties are always the ver

Re: Apache 2.2 Adaptor

2008-07-23 Thread Gavin Eadie
On Jul 23, 2008, at 6:03 PM, Lachlan Deck wrote: Hi there, On 24/07/2008, at 1:32 AM, Gavin Eadie wrote: On Jul 23, 2008, at 6:14 AM, James Brook wrote: Can anyone tell me what the state of the art is with Apache 2.2 adaptors at the moment? I would normally go to Wonder, but I see that

Re: Apache 2.2 Adaptor

2008-07-23 Thread Gavin Eadie
On Jul 23, 2008, at 6:14 AM, James Brook wrote: Can anyone tell me what the state of the art is with Apache 2.2 adaptors at the moment? I would normally go to Wonder, but I see that the source has not changed for some time. My guess is that the Apple adaptor that ships with 5.4 has been rew

WebObjects Apache adaptors (comparisons)

2008-07-22 Thread Gavin Eadie
Since I need to help a colleague get an Apache 2.2.x adaptor running on Red Hat, I read through all the prior email on the subject. In it there are references to source code from several different places. To avoid confusion, I pulled all the versions I could find and compared them. The b

Re: Problem with webobjects - tag occurred before another tag

2008-07-21 Thread Gavin Eadie
On Jul 21, 2008, at 6:50 PM, Gavin Eadie wrote: * font>Overriding Title: size="3">* Overriding Description:face="Tahoma, Arial">size="3">

Re: Problem with webobjects - tag occurred before another tag

2008-07-21 Thread Gavin Eadie
Mersida ... We try to keep all correspondence on the mailing list, you never know when the archives will be useful to someone. On Jul 21, 2008, at 5:57 PM, Mersida Kurti wrote: Hi Gavin, What do you mean by "(for which I just fed the entire *.html collection to an editor)"? Is there an edit

Re: Problem with webobjects - tag occurred before another tag

2008-07-21 Thread Gavin Eadie
On Jul 21, 2008, at 5:16 PM, Guido Neitzer wrote: On 21.07.2008, at 15:04, Lachlan Deck wrote: I have just switched my environment from 10.4 tiger with web objects 5.2.4 to 10.5 leopard (mac intel) with webobjects 5.4.2 and I'm getting a lot of tag errors such as occurred before , occur

Re: processing incoming e-mails

2008-07-15 Thread Gavin Eadie
On Jul 15, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Philippe Rabier wrote: I'm not sure that solution meets requirement because, as far as I understand, Michael is looking for a solution that analyzes every incoming email for any recipient, that would allow to ignore some emails for example. But all solutions

Re: processing incoming e-mails

2008-07-14 Thread Gavin Eadie
I run James for a convenient SMTP server on localhost, but it's a huge pig for what is needed here. Take a look at: http://subethasmtp.tigris.org/ ... Gavin __ On Jul 14, 2008, at 8:37 PM, Lon Varscsak wrote: +1 to james. Lon On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Simon McLean <[EMAIL

Re: Moving to 5.4 - Fetch Spec with invalid key error

2008-06-18 Thread Gavin Eadie
Topic swerve: I've always wondered about that -- NSCalendarDate appears in ERPrototypes also ... Gav On Jun 18, 2008, at 11:48 AM, David Avendasora wrote: Is NSCalendarDate a valid Datatype? Isn't that the Objective-C class? ___ Do not post admin

Re: compound primary key ("failed to provide new primary keys")

2008-06-14 Thread Gavin Eadie
Lucky I love learning! Things I learned: ... in WebObjects, if it's difficult, you're doing it wrongly! ... Chuck is always right (even if he doesn't mention flattening in his book). ... Apple's documentation for EOF at WO version 4.5 rocks! ... Start with the model and let the database ta

Re: compound primary key ("failed to provide new primary keys")

2008-06-14 Thread Gavin Eadie
On Jun 14, 2008, at 7:08 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: Seems to me like it should be no trouble at all. ... maybe I'm trying too hard. My WOMantra is, "If it's difficult, it's wrong" .. Gav ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.

Re: compound primary key ("failed to provide new primary keys")

2008-06-14 Thread Gavin Eadie
My reading would indicate that I don't want to "propagates primary key". If I do, then the creation of an Advert WILL always create a Select. But Selects are not mandatory, in fact in this business model they are scarce. The real world model is a bulletin board of advertisements whose us

Re: compound primary key ("failed to provide new primary keys")

2008-06-14 Thread Gavin Eadie
Grr ... always in the last corner you look in. Sadly, Entity Modeler still complains for a lack of primary keys ... Gav <> On Jun 14, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Gavin Eadie wrote: No, I didn't. Having read about what that does, it looks like it is a capability intended for my need.

Re: compound primary key ("failed to provide new primary keys")

2008-06-14 Thread Gavin Eadie
you check "Propagates Primary Key" on the Author and Advert entity? jw Am 14.06.2008 um 18:31 schrieb Gavin Eadie: I've twisted myself into a knot and would appreciate a little untangling help. EOF makes so much easy that I get lulled into the idea tha

Re: compound primary key ("failed to provide new primary keys")

2008-06-14 Thread Gavin Eadie
something wrong there -- which may not entirely bracket the problem but it is likely to get you close. Tom On Jun 14, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Gavin Eadie wrote: I've twisted myself into a knot and would appreciate a little unta

Re: ERJavamail bug ??

2008-06-12 Thread Gavin Eadie
On Jun 12, 2008, at 6:54 AM, Simon McLean wrote: [Is] it is a wonder app (are you subclassing ERXApplication / ERXSession etc) ? if you are then you can create a properties file in your user directory called WebObjects.properties (/users/simon/ WebObjects.properties for example) and put pr

Re: retrieving PK immediately after saveChanges() ...

2008-06-10 Thread Gavin Eadie
... newRecord.primaryKey() ? ... newRecord.primaryKeyInTransaction() Calling this method will return the primary key of the given enterprise object or if one has not been assigned to it yet, then it will have the adaptor channel generate one for it, cache it and then use that primary key

Re: retrieving PK immediately after saveChanges() ...

2008-06-10 Thread Gavin Eadie
On 10 Jun 2008, at 23:36, Gavin Eadie wrote: I need to provide a unique user-facing serial number on records, and it would be fine if it was the same as the primary key integer. What I've been trying to do is to save the record once so the pkey is assigned, then use it to set the s

retrieving PK immediately after saveChanges() ...

2008-06-10 Thread Gavin Eadie
I need to provide a unique user-facing serial number on records, and it would be fine if it was the same as the primary key integer. What I've been trying to do is to save the record once so the pkey is assigned, then use it to set the serial. Essentially, as follows: public void addPer

Re: Java 1.6

2008-04-29 Thread Gavin Eadie
in case you were hunting: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/javaformacosx105update1.html On Apr 29, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Mike Schrag wrote: Java 1.6 for Leopard is out ... ms ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. We

Re: Best Server Environment for Large WebObjects Applications

2008-04-27 Thread Gavin Eadie
wotaskd is just a WebObjects application - Java only; we run it on Linux. The source is now also available. What IS offered 'in the box' in the Mac OS X context is the mechanism to start wotaskd (launchd on Mac OS X) at boot time, but there are equivalent startup scripts in other environm

WOEventDisplay (WOEvent logging password)

2008-04-22 Thread Gavin Eadie
I've been trying to get the /wa/WOEventDisplay direct action to work. The description in the Javadoc for WOEvent says you need a property "EOEventLoggingPassword" set to provide a password that will let you access the event displays. In fact, this does NOT work as described -- you need to:

Re: how to thread a really computationally intensive page ?

2008-03-27 Thread Gavin Eadie
On Mar 27, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Mike Schrag wrote: Are you sure it is not firing faults, one by one by one... Yeah, 10:1 this is horrible faulting behavior ... I just talked to my buddy and he notes that there is some db access in this component after all. Six years ago, our team were all WO

Re: how to thread a really computationally intensive page ?

2008-03-27 Thread Gavin Eadie
On Mar 27, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Mike Schrag wrote: YourPage backgroundPage = ERXApplication.instantiatePage( YourPage.class.getName() ); You MAY want to go the context clone route, or you will lose the original context's headers, which might break links if you need virtual hosting info or wheth

how to thread a really computationally intensive page ?

2008-03-27 Thread Gavin Eadie
My colleague has an application [a rather old application written as we learned WebObjects with much that is embarrassing in the cruel light of our current skills] which occasionally is called on to display a report that can take considerable computation as it grinds through various nested

Re: WWDC 08

2008-03-13 Thread Gavin Eadie
Actually, I believe I've noticed a slight up-tick in the number of 'novice' WebObjects users in the WebObjects and WOLips/Wonder mailing lists. If this is not my imagination, there's still people out there joining our platform .. Gavin On Mar 13, 2008, at 5:30 PM, David Elliott wrote: I a

Re: Converting to a static site.

2008-02-25 Thread Gavin Eadie
and: http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WO/Web+Applications-Development-Generating+Static+Pages On Feb 25, 2008, at 5:55 PM, Gavin Eadie wrote: Yes, there was an article on this several years ago: http://www.paullynch.org/webobjects/mixedsite/ On Feb 25, 2008, at 1:51 PM

Re: Converting to a static site.

2008-02-25 Thread Gavin Eadie
Yes, there was an article on this several years ago: http://www.paullynch.org/webobjects/mixedsite/ On Feb 25, 2008, at 1:51 PM, James Cicenia wrote: I thought I had remembered a document somewhere on the web on instructions on how to convert a simple webobjects site to a static one, say, f

Re: java heap trouble after 5.4.1 upgrade, opensnoop to the rescue

2008-02-22 Thread Gavin Eadie
One of the aspects of WebObjects it took me a long time to figure out was that it's a lot more amenable to being deployed in various different ways than I first thought. The 'out of the box' method has been as Guido suggests with sets of frameworks ("Apple" and "local") shared by multiple

Re: WOImage inline binding: src-attribute not recognized

2008-02-19 Thread Gavin Eadie
There is an exact parallel failure with http://www.apple.com"; /> : Exception occurred while handling request: com.webobjects.appserver.parser.woml.WOMLTemplateParserException: Main: 7:3: Could not generate an element named: WOHyperlink Caused by: com.webobjects.appserver._priv

Re: 5.4.1 is out

2008-02-14 Thread Gavin Eadie
The notes are up: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307466 On Feb 12, 2008, at 1:11 AM, Mr. Pierre Frisch wrote: Sorry about the release notes, they should have gone up with the release. We are trying to that fixed ASAP. In the mean time here they are. ___

Re: recurring events

2008-02-06 Thread Gavin Eadie
Mike ... Do you get any ideas from the iCalendar representation of the calendar? I expect you've looked at this but, just in case, there in one definition for the recurring event -- the first VEVENT below, and others for any moved member of that series (the second VEVENT (same UID)). A re

Re: NSPropertyListSerialization documentation error ?

2008-02-05 Thread Gavin Eadie
Bug ID# 5726980 On Feb 6, 2008, at 12:20 AM, Chuck Hill wrote: About the only description I can find of the 'ascii' format of Apple's plist is: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/PropertyLists/Articles/OldStylePListsConcept.html Therein is an example of dictionary

NSPropertyListSerialization documentation error ?

2008-02-05 Thread Gavin Eadie
I'll file this, but wanted to be sure I didn't misunderstand the format. About the only description I can find of the 'ascii' format of Apple's plist is: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/PropertyLists/Articles/OldStylePListsConcept.html Therein is an example of d

Re: Short question (legacy usage?)

2008-02-03 Thread Gavin Eadie
Turns out that yes it MUST be there on frameworks. I've just wasted several hours hunting for why one of my frameworks kept showing up as the MainBundle, and it was because it had NO "Has_WOComponents" key in its Info.plist. And while I'm snarling at my laptop why on earth does Info.plist

Re: Short question (legacy usage?)

2008-01-31 Thread Gavin Eadie
d save you some pain. Thanks, Mike, who is so brilliant he can answer my questions months before I ask them! On Jan 30, 2008, at 11:28 PM, Gavin Eadie wrote: I'm bringing some ancient code forward to WOLips and, in the course of that, discovered a problem in my application's Info.pli

Re: Short question (legacy usage?)

2008-01-30 Thread Gavin Eadie
wrong) this key specifies that a bundle (.framework or .jar) contains WebObjects components (ie. .wo bundles). Cheers, Jake On 31/01/2008, at 3:28 PM, Gavin Eadie wrote: Has_WOComponents ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will b

Short question (legacy usage?)

2008-01-30 Thread Gavin Eadie
I'm bringing some ancient code forward to WOLips and, in the course of that, discovered a problem in my application's Info.plist: Has_WOComponents Does anyone know what this does? Is it an old usage? I ask because it seems to get 5.4 WOBootstrap seriously grumpy -- as far as I can

Re: WOAllowRapidTurnaround = true Isn't working...

2008-01-23 Thread Gavin Eadie
ave On Jan 23, 2008, at 10:45 AM, Gavin Eadie wrote: I ran into this too some days ago and, not realizing that PB.project dependency, I added setCachingEnabled (false); to my Application class and that restored rapid turnaround .. Gav On Jan 23, 2008, at 9:42 AM, David Avendasor

Re: WOAllowRapidTurnaround = true Isn't working...

2008-01-23 Thread Gavin Eadie
I ran into this too some days ago and, not realizing that PB.project dependency, I added setCachingEnabled (false); to my Application class and that restored rapid turnaround .. Gav On Jan 23, 2008, at 9:42 AM, David Avendasora wrote: Mike, I'm coming to Richmond to hunt you d

Bundle Versions (CFBUNDLESHORTVERSIONSTRINGKEY)

2008-01-19 Thread Gavin Eadie
WebObjects 5.4 introduced a static field to the NSBundle class to allow access to the Info.plist short version string. I've checked framework versions as a run-time safety net against version skew issues for a few years, and wondered if this field becoming more accessible would help in any

Re: Date-Only NSTimestamps

2008-01-02 Thread Gavin Eadie
I've not dug deep into either of them, Jakarta Commons-Lang and Joda Time look worth exploring. The Joda Time stuff looks pretty good, but I've not used it (yet). I have used the Commons-Lang library for rounding to midnight and comparing dates. http://commons.apache.org/lang/ http://jod

Re: Where is WO 5.3.4 distributed ?

2007-12-19 Thread Gavin Eadie
At 6:33 AM -0800 12/19/07, Mr. Pierre Frisch wrote: There is no WO 5.3.4, The version distributed with XCode 2.5 is a recompile of WO 5.3.3 as was distributed with the DST update in February. ... thanks, Pierre. Apologies to the list for my embarrassing fantasy life! __

Where is WO 5.3.4 distributed ?

2007-12-18 Thread Gavin Eadie
I'm certain there was a WO 5.3.4 release after the DST fix release (5.3.3), but I'm having trouble finding it. I looked in the XCode 2.5 distribution and it looks very much like the version carried there is 5.3.3 (the JavaWebObjects Info.plist file shows a ShortVersion of 5.3.3). I want to p

Re: EOF Adaptor for Amazon's SimpleDB?

2007-12-14 Thread Gavin Eadie
At 9:33 AM -0800 12/14/07, Joe Moreno wrote: I'd also love a simple Amazon EC2 instance running WebObjects (WO frameworks and WO adaptor) that can be configured with JavaMonitor. ... I started down this path several months ago and then Real Work intervened, but I'm retired now so maybe I'll pi

[WOHumor?] WOHTMLBareStringReabable ...

2007-12-11 Thread Gavin Eadie
Poking around in the innards of some of the new parsing stuff in WO 5.4, I find the class: com.webobjects.appserver.parser.woml.WOHTMLBareStringReabable do you think that should have been ...Readable, and, if not, what does Reabable mean?! I now claim the prize for the least valua

Re: How to implement timing refresh of WebObjects page

2007-09-16 Thread Gavin Eadie
At 12:06 AM +0800 9/17/07, Andrew.Yi.Huang wrote: How can I implement timing refresh of WebObjects page? For example, refresh a page every 5 seconds! Can I implement a WOComponent as a thread class? And put them together into some Thread Pool? Thank you for any suggestions! ... would the WOMe

Re: Web Objects NDA List?

2007-08-15 Thread Gavin Eadie
Ron ... There isn't a WebObjects forum where NDA material is discussed. If your question is about a WebObjects tool or feature you should just ask in this list not only because people here know a lot, but also because WebObjects tools have migrated to public domain tools and the people who wri

Re: WOLips Ant Build

2007-07-09 Thread Gavin Eadie
At 3:55 PM -0700 7/9/07, Chuck Hill wrote: The Ant build that ships with WOLips is, IMO, a terrible mess. Some time ago, I headed down a path I wondered if I'd regret, which was redoing the WO ant tasks. It would mean maintaining my own copy, etc, etc, but it was a better fit to the way I li

Re: News from Webobjecs sessions

2007-06-15 Thread Gavin Eadie
At 11:42 AM -0700 6/15/07, Chuck Hill wrote: The move would not be easy but in light of the lack of news I don't think we have a lot of choice from a business perspective. ... if this is a big deal for you, or your company, it might be worth the investment of a trip to Cupertino to talk to peo

Re: News from Webobjecs sessions

2007-06-15 Thread Gavin Eadie
At 8:14 AM -0500 6/12/07, James Cicenia wrote: Can we at least get a nugget like.. things are happening? same as it always is.. nothing new.. just opensource. We just finished the WebObjects Feedback session, about forty questions and suggestions to the Apple people up front

Re: Getting Started With WO site

2007-06-14 Thread Gavin Eadie
At 8:25 AM -0700 6/14/07, Pascal Robert wrote: This might actually work against the goal, but what do you think about having a page where all the people on the lists that use WebObjects can go and list themselves and their organization as WebObjects users? ... We did that already! Of course,

Re: historical context ...

2007-06-14 Thread Gavin Eadie
At 11:43 PM -0700 6/13/07, Gavin Eadie wrote: In one of today's WebObjects sessions at WWDC, it was asked how old WebObjects really is. Work started on it in 1994 and ... ... while I'm in a historical mood, here's one for today -- please excuse the diversion from normal

historical context ...

2007-06-13 Thread Gavin Eadie
In one of today's WebObjects sessions at WWDC, it was asked how old WebObjects really is. Work started on it in 1994 and ... __ October 1995 According to Steve Jobs, CEO of NeXT, Inc., the future of the Web lies in dynamic information and increased inte

Re: WOWOWOWODC 2007

2007-06-11 Thread Gavin Eadie
At 8:47 AM -0700 6/11/07, Janine Sisk wrote: I had a great time as well; kudos to the organizers and presenters! WOWODC 2007 is over, and I'm sharing a few pictures. The light level was a little low for, but I don't like flashing people. http://web.mac.com/gavineadie I think everyone w

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