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World? ERModernLook. ERModernLook? World.

ERModernLook is a modernized DirectToWeb look added to Project Wonder this morning. My sneak peek post from yesterday has a short screencast that gives you an idea of what it looks like.

Some additional details:

ERModernLook Frameworks

• ERModernLook – contains the standard look page templates
• ERModernDefaultSkin – contains the css and style resources
• ERModernDirectToWeb – contains modernized versions of components from ERDirectToWeb

ERModernLook Applications

• ERModernMoviesDemo – a demo application based on the ERMoviesLogic framework

Ramsey Gurley does a great job of explaining the D2W rules system (and why Project Wonder is invaluable) in this article on the wiki.
A highly recommended read.

Project Wonder’s ERExcelLook is a framework that leverages Direct To Web and the ExcelGenerator framework to easily generate Excel exports. I just finished a short screencast on adding it to an existing project. The topics covered are:

Adding Direct To Web to an existing project
Adding and action to trigger an .xls export for an array of [...]

The job of an EOEditingContext (EC) in WebObjects is to manage an object graph of EOEnterpriseObjects (EOs). Think of it as a sandbox that your EOs live in. Any changes made to those EOs – attributes changed, relationships created or destroyed, EOs added or deleted – are tracked by the EC and committed to the [...]

I wrote about using Project Wonder’s ERXConfigurationManager to ‘twiddle’ your model connection dictionary settings here.
I only listed the global properties, but there are per model properties as well. Unfortunately the JDBC settings are not very well documented. So, to google index my brain, here are my notes: Most of the heavy lifting is done by [...]