Cayenne and Naked Objects

From: Jonathan Carlson (Jonathan.Carlso..atun.com)
Date: Tue Sep 07 2004 - 12:55:48 EDT

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    Is anyone familiar with the concept of creating a generic UI framework
    that allows one to write an application with only business object
    attributes and methods?

    http://www.nakedobjects.org
    http://www.theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=NakedObjectSeries_5
    http://www.jroller.com/page/cv/20040211#naked_eclipse_objects

    I am really intrigued by the possibility of using Cayenne's rich
    metadata to build a generic UI (probably web-based in my case) that
    would work for lots of different application domains.

    I looked into the concept of naked objects last year sometime and then
    forgot about it because the current implementation at
    http://www.nakedobjects.org seemed rather unintuitive, had no security,
    and seemed to lacked scalability.

    But recently my company has chosen a new ERP that uses a concept
    similar to this (using Oracle packages instead of objects and a mostly
    generic Windows UI). I started to realize that this concept really
    could scale if the framework was coded right and was more intuitive.

    I'll keep looking into this. Hopefully I can come up with a generic
    web UI framework for Cayenne data objects that I can open source.

    Any thoughts?

    Jonathan

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