Re: Session timeout when performing an action

2012-09-16 Thread Ravi Mendis
Salut Dominique!ça và?I think you can safely assume the session timeout is not cos of xhtml validation :)Thx,RaviOn Sep 14, 2012, at 05:38 PM, Schoenenberger Dominique wrote: I have a problem with untimely session timeout. The user is doing actions with the appl

Re: [OT] Play! Framework

2011-03-25 Thread Ravi Mendis
Just b'cos Clojure is a dynamic language, it doesn't make it anything like Obj-C. Clojure like Scala is a strongly typed language (typical of functional languages). So I doubt Clojure being a better match for WO+EOF than Scala... On 11/03/2011, at 7:47 PM, Ray Kiddy wrote: > I actually think

Re: [OT] Play! Framework

2011-03-13 Thread Ravi Mendis
Yes, of course. On 14/03/2011, at 1:57 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: > On Mar 13, 2011, at 6:07 PM, Ravi Mendis wrote: >> >> IMO the primary motivation customers have for moving off WebObjects is its >> inability to perform in an increasingly multi-core processor world. > &g

Re: [OT] Play! Framework

2011-03-13 Thread Ravi Mendis
I recently evaluated a couple of these new app servers (for Scala) and i found Play! to be the slowest (in terms of scalability/concurrency)...considerably so. In fact i think Play! was slower than WebObjects...[though i can't remember for sure] IMO the primary motivation customers have for mov

Re: WOWODC 2010 videos

2011-02-06 Thread Ravi Mendis
Hi Pascal, The Podcasts appear to be uncompressed/un-exported. (I'm just checking if there's an error/mistake). I also noticed that there wasn't much in the way of additional sound editing...i guess i missed the whole discussion on monetizing the videos! Thx, Ravi On 28/01/2011, at 2:49 AM, Pa

Re: WebObjects scalability question - WOSession?

2010-11-15 Thread Ravi Mendis
lol Is that out of experience? ;) I'm going to echo Mike's sentiment slightly differently: Building a successful site like Twitter, Facebook (or iTunes) takes great developers and good practices first and foremost. That's going to determine success more so than your choice of language (e.g: Ja

Re: Scala and WebObjects

2010-11-13 Thread Ravi Mendis
That would explain why by Sun some of us had hoarse voices...and coughed and chocked the way through a presentation ;) lol On 14/11/2010, at 3:54 AM, Pascal Robert wrote: > Le 2010-11-13 à 10:24, Joe Little a écrit : > >> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Kieran Kelleher wrote: >>> You obvious

Re: Scala and WebObjects

2010-11-11 Thread Ravi Mendis
). I'm still not 100% convinced of Actors, and java.util.concurrent is > also very good. > > Ok now I have to ask it - if you don't use EOF, why use WebObjects at all? > Does D2W work seamlessly with Squeryl? Do you have an example project for > that? > > - Mariu

Re: Scala and WebObjects

2010-11-10 Thread Ravi Mendis
tes > // Relationships > } > } > > Now the companion objects can both inherit the statics from the trait, like > this: > > object base.EntityName extends EntityNameStatics > > object EntityName extends EntityNameStatics > > > > O

Re: Webobjects-dev Digest, Vol 7, Issue 570

2010-09-15 Thread Ravi Mendis
Reminds me of the Scala + WO presentation @ WOWODC :) I hadn't realised how much i was coughing until i listened to the Podcast. Sorry all... On 16/09/2010, at 3:20 PM, Mike Schrag wrote: >> Hopefully we can get binary plists > *cough* > https://wonder.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/wonder/branche

Re: Does Apple stop to use WebObjects for its internal tools?

2010-09-10 Thread Ravi Mendis
On Sep 10, 2010, at 9:17 PM, Mertz St?phan wrote: > The new 'the Sales and Trend reporting module' of iTunes Connect is develop > with JSF instead of WebObjects. That maybe because iTunes engineering has someone with considerable JSF expertise...i think i know who ;) For anyone considering alt

Re: WOWODC 2010 recordings

2010-09-07 Thread Ravi Mendis
Montreal gets my vote :) Speaking of the hotel Net - i'm very surprised they didn't have a dedicated WiFi+Net just for their conference floor and attendees... On 08/09/2010, at 6:12 AM, Lon Varscsak wrote: >> >> Oh trust me, if we're doing it in Montreal again, I will find new places to >> han

Re: How to use noConflict to get JQuery and Ajax(Wonder)workingtogether?

2010-08-04 Thread Ravi Mendis
You may find conflicts even within the Prototype + Scriptaculous "family" of javascripts available out there... ...adding jQuery and its set of plugins to the mix is really not worth the headache :) I'd use one or the other NOT both. Just my 2cents... On 05/08/2010, at 9:47 AM, David BON wrot

Re: Multicore Processors and WebObjects

2010-06-03 Thread Ravi Mendis
Using concurrent request handling in WebObjects may appear as deceptively simple as turning on a property... However, in a real project it'll be a little more involved than that - you do have to manage shared mutable data and locking/unlocking of EO editing contexts - to avoid deadlocks - the b

Re: Webobjects-dev Digest, Vol 7, Issue 333

2010-06-02 Thread Ravi Mendis
Hello Miguel, For certain compute intensive/long response type tasks you can use Scala (with Actors). It's probably not for those starting out WO, but this should help: http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WO/WebObjects+with+Scala For even more information be sure to attend WOWODC. Th

Re: Need some help about ERDivaLook

2010-04-20 Thread Ravi Mendis
On 21/04/2010, at 5:08 AM, farrukh.i...@fuegodigitalmedia.com wrote: > Where can I find a simple and already configured stylesheet that I can use > with ERDivaLook? Examples/ERDivaLookExample (There are two examples themes included). > Any link to some solid documentation would be great. http:

Re: Are you using scala + webobjects?

2010-03-24 Thread Ravi Mendis
Hi Dominique, Yes. I'm very busy (right now in fact!) deploying a concurrent WebObjects application that uses Scala. I'm hoping to present this as a case study for the "Scala & WO" track at this year's WOWODC. In the meantime, i'm keeping notes on the wiki: http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluen

Re: Writing maintainable and extendable D2W rules

2009-11-12 Thread Ravi Mendis
Hi, The answer is to use Convention over Configuration. I've been meaning to add this to the wiki for awhile - on how to do this with D2W. Here it is: http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WO/How+to+Write+D2W+Rules Thanks, Ravi On 13/11/2009, at 5:04 AM, webobjects-dev-requ...@list

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Ravi Mendis
On Friday, October 09, 2009, at 07:11PM, Joe Little wrote: >LiftWeb is painful to the eyes. Scala is great, LiftWeb just won't >gain traction with my brain. I couldn't agree more: I love Scala, but it's a shame about Lift... If you're looking for alternatives or just something new, try Scala w

Re: Anyone playing with Scala?

2009-09-16 Thread Ravi Mendis
You're right - it's not necessarily anti-concurrent. Just that if you use a static var you must ensure that it is private and its setter is synchronized (or some similar precaution to make its use thread-safe). Scala offers the convenience of not allowing the developer to ever define a shared

Re: Anyone playing with Scala?

2009-09-16 Thread Ravi Mendis
Hi Q, I am thinking of using Scala with WebObjects...yes. Typically deadlocks are more likely to be caused by your own code, rather than the underlying frameworks. This assumes you're using Wonder/WO/EOF in a thread-safe manner. i.e you are taking the necessary precautions for EOF (like turnin

Re: Anyone playing with Scala?

2009-09-16 Thread Ravi Mendis
tion beyond my >experience. > >Tim >UCLA GSE&IS > >On Sep 16, 2009, at 9:43 PM, Ravi Mendis wrote: > >> Playtime is over for Scala... >> ...my intention is to do my next production app in Scala. >> >> The primary motivation for using Scala is tha

Re: Anyone playing with Scala?

2009-09-16 Thread Ravi Mendis
>Particularly for things that aren't code, like component validation, >content assist, etc. > >Do you feel this is something you would use to write real world apps >with, or is it just something you have tried as a bit of fun? > >On 17/09/2009, at 11:27 AM, Ravi Me

Re: Anyone playing with Scala?

2009-09-16 Thread Ravi Mendis
Dusting off an ancient thread here... For those interested in programming WebObjects in Scala, you might like: http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WO/WebObjects+with+Scala Thanks to Dominique Schonenberger for gifting me "Programming in Scala" (by Martin Odersky) for my holidays :) F

Re: D2W: article at stepwise.com, references in wiki

2009-05-12 Thread Ravi Mendis
On 11/05/2009, at 9:29 PM, Ramsey Lee Gurley wrote: > Did you see this one? I hope to work on more when time allows... > > http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4129115 There is another set of articles on ERDivaLook: http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/W

Re: WOWiki: New User

2009-03-11 Thread Ravi Mendis
: Ravi Mendis Subject: Re: WOWiki: New User Hi Ravi, this is definitely possible. Any authenticated users are allowed to add new pages. If you are unsure on where to put your new stuff in the page hierarchy, drop a note to the WO mailing list - all contributors to this wiki are there and should

Fw: [Announce] ERDivaLook (beta III) : "table-less" D2W look

2009-03-06 Thread Ravi Mendis
Hello, A quick reminder: Diva look produces "table-less" markup. Normally this is considered a necessary foundation/prerequisite for Unobtrusive JavaScript widgets and even Ajax/Web 2.0 libs like prototype+scriptaculous, jquery, etc. Here's the 3rd beta: http://www.svgobjects2.com/downloads

Re: W3C validation and ERXBatchNavigationBar

2009-01-24 Thread Ravi Mendis
On Friday, January 23, 2009, at 01:31AM, wrote: >> Sounds like a good idea. One question though: have you considered >> contributing back to Wonder the components you've overridden from it? >In Ravi's defense, they did completely offer all of their stuff back >to Wonder, actually ... It wa

Re: W3C validation and ERXBatchNavigationBar

2009-01-22 Thread Ravi Mendis
Hi, If you're looking for "table-less" WO components (that happen to validate to XHTML strict), you will find a set (including ERXBatchNavigatorBar) included in the ERDivaLook framework: http://www.svgobjects2.com/downloads/ERDivaLook_beta_II.zip (I might consider factoring these components

ERDivaLook (Was: D2W and Ajax)

2008-12-12 Thread Ravi Mendis
I think many people appear to be coming across a common pitfall with Ajax and WO in general: Often, a prerequisite of unobtrusive javascript libraries like Prototype (and jQuery, etc) is an already separated presentation layer (in the form of CSS + presentationless xHTML). That maybe because Un

Re: D2W and Ajax

2008-12-05 Thread Ravi Mendis
You wrote: >I've been trying the last while to get an AjaxUpdateContainer working >inside a D2W property component on an inspect/edit page and I simply >can't get it to work. I'm not certain if it's even possible, but I >can get a Ajax autocomplete to work fine as a property component. To answer

Re: D2iPhone [Second beta]

2008-03-24 Thread Ravi Mendis
The new feature for this release is the 'XHTML Look' for DirectToiPhone. My focus for svgobjects2 is vector graphics Web 2.0 apps, so the 'XHTML Look' is more or less a stop gap solution until an SVG enabled device is released. Of interest: the XHTML look demo app is virtually identical to

BUG: WO 5.4 combined template parser + XML declaration

2008-02-07 Thread Ravi Mendis
This is quite a serious flaw in WO 5.4. In an xml document as such: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> Hello World Hello  WO 5.4 spits out the exception: Error: com.webobjects.appserver.parser.woml.WOMLTemplateParserE

Re: svgobjects 2.0 beta1: Installing DirectToiPhone

2007-06-26 Thread Ravi Mendis
Hello David, Thanks you. I shall include these details in the installation instructions for the next beta release. On Tuesday, June 26, 2007, at 09:50AM, "David Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >DirectToiPhone looks great. I just wanted to give out a couple of >extra tips that I used to get it

svgobjects 2.0: First Beta

2007-06-25 Thread Ravi Mendis
Now that many of you are back from WWDC and have had time to play around with Leopard beta, you might be ready to check out (v.3.0) Safari’s excellent native SVG support. I’m pleased to release the first beta of svgobjects 2.0. It’s just in time for the release of the iPhone next week. Take

svgobjects 2.0: First Beta

2007-06-25 Thread Ravi Mendis
Now that many of you are back from WWDC and have had time to play around with Leopard beta, you might be ready to check out (v.3.0) Safari’s excellent native SVG support. I’m pleased to release the first beta of svgobjects 2.0. It’s just in time for the release of the iPhone next week. Take