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... ... @@ -4,14 +4,16 @@ 4 4 5 5 1. Direct To Java Client (D2JC) 6 6 1. Java Client using Interface Builder to create NIB files that define the UI 7 -1. Java Client using Swing 7 +1. Java Client using pure Swing 8 8 9 -The first two types used other files (XML/NIB files) to build the Swing code during run-time. This ma de for quick development times requiring very little Javacode. D2JC was very flexible with the UI controlled almost entirely by text-based configuration files (the same rules-systemused by Direct to Web) and major changes to the underlying.eomodel file could often-times be reflected in the UI with no refactoring at all.9 +The first two types used other files (XML/NIB files) to build the Swing code during run-time. This can make for quick development times requiring very little Java programming. 10 10 11 - Unfortunately bothofthesefirsttwomethodssuffered fromlowusageandthereforelittlesupportwas availablewithin thecommunity. Both have since beendeprecated.NIB-baseddevelopmentwasdeprecateddue to thedeprecationofthe toolsrequiredfor development. D2JC has beendeprecatedas well, even thoughnoexternaltools wererequiredtobuildorodifyaD2JCapplication.11 +D2JC is very flexible with the UI generated almost entirely at runtime by text-based configuration files (the same rules-system used by Direct to Web). This allows the developer to go from Database or Model to a native-UI application in just minutes. Major changes to the underlying database/EOModel can often-times be reflected in the UI with little or no Java programming or refactoring at all. 12 12 13 - Thegoodnewsis thatbuilding a WebObjectsJavaClientapplication"TheThirdWay"using pure Swinghas**not**been deprecatedandstillexists inWO5.4.13 +NIB-Based development used Project Builder/Xcode's Interface Builder application to create cocoa-based NIB files that were then interpreted at run-time using the Cocoa-Java Bridge to create a pure Swing application. NIB-based development has been deprecated due to the deprecation of the tools required for development and the Cocoa-Java Bridge. 14 14 15 +Swing-based Java Client Development has recently gotten much simpler with the release of Florijan Stamenkovic's [[javaBound (JBND) framework>>url:http://web.mac.com/flor385/JBND/||shape="rect"]] which greatly streamlines many key pieces of native-client application development. 16 + 15 15 While there are not a lot of WebObjects Java Client projects when compared to the quantity of Web-Based projects, it seems to be getting more attention now than it has in several years. 16 16 17 -There are a couple third-party developers working on solutions to streamline the development of pure Swing/SWT/etc Java Client applications for Web Objects. See [[Complimentary Frameworks>>Java Client-Complimentary Frameworks]] 19 +There are a couple third-party developers working on solutions to streamline the development of pure Swing/SWT/etc Java Client applications for Web Objects. See [[Complimentary Frameworks>>doc:documentation.Home.Development Architecture.Java Client.Java Client-Complimentary Frameworks.WebHome]]
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