Category Archive for: ‘WebObjects’

• WebObjects to Ruby on Rails

  I just gave this presentation for BarCamp on a relative comparison between migrating a small application from WebObjects to Ruby on Rails. I wrote the WO version years ago; since it served my needs, I never added features. While it was tempting to add new …

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• Cool Blog on WO

  I was trying to find the answer to a WO problem and found this blog. A cool collection of stuff.

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• WebObjects and PDF Generation

  Every once in a while, it comes up on the WebObjects list about how to generate a PDF. Lots of proprietary solutions are suggested, but there’s also a free one: Apache’s FOP, which can take an XML file + an XSL file and produce a …

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• WOXMLCoder, again

  While I’m catching up on posts, I thought I’d mention some of the things I’d been working on. When I was trying to solve a WOXMLCoder issue, I was rather distressed to find the first link that seemed useful was my own page. Since it …

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• WOXMLCoder Example

  I hadn’t found a really good example for WOXMLCoder yet, so I decided to try something. Given the following model: I wasn’t quite certain how trying to get the to-one relationships would work. It was, as I’d hoped, easier than I expected. And, I might …

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• The Joy of Databases

  So, discovering that I had no JDBC driver for Oracle, I go to Oracle’s site to obtain one. Naturally, I had to assert that I comply with the following: I am not a citizen, national or resident of, and am not under the control of, …

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• WebObjects Meetup, RIP

  If you visit webobjects.meetup.com, you’ll see the charming new message: Your WebObjects Meetup topic has been closed. Thank you for your interest in the Web Objects Meetup. This Meetup has been merged with the Mac Meetup. Please click here to join the Mac Meetup: http://mac.meetup.com/ …

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• Something to Blog About?

  Well, one of the struggles of maintaining a blog is, “What do I say today?” And there are lulls where one quite literally feels there’s nothing to say. Yesterday was my birthday. A couple minor bad things happened and a very cool thing (but I’m …

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• Problem Solved

  Turned out to be a subtle error in permissions. WO wasn’t using localhost and the permissions for emperor.deirdre.org were corrupt due to a change in the grant table format — but I hadn’t tested emperor.deirdre.org, I’d tested localhost. The other application had a newer database, …

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• I was wrong

  The path problem wasn’t the problem after all. Odd that the same app runs multiple ways, just not in deployment on the deployment machine. So I’m running it (crawling it, really) on my laptop instead. Feh. java.lang.IllegalStateException: _obtainOpenChannel — com.webobjects.eoaccess.EODatabaseContext com.webobjects.eoaccess.EODatabaseContext@c743eb: failed to open database …

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