Re: onCourse product launch

From: Malcolm Edgar (malcolm.edga..mail.com)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2006 - 07:40:06 EDT

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    Hi Aristedes,

    Congratulations, the application looks great.

    I am getting jealous of all the cool looking Mac UI's I am seeing now days.

    regards Malcolm Edgar

    On 9/28/06, Aristedes Maniatis <ar..sh.com.au> wrote:
    > Since there isn't a lot of news about products using Cayenne, I
    > thought it pertinent to mention that our product called "ish
    > onCourse" has just been launched to the world. It is a free product
    > which is written for the education sector: it is a student and
    > enrolment tracking system with a strong marketing focus. Some of the
    > interesting (from a programming perspective) things we've done:
    >
    > * Cayenne client/server three tier setup
    > * Swing GUI
    > * embedded Derby database in the server with a GUI wrapper
    > * passing validation messages from Cayenne into the GUI to display
    > against the fields where validation errors occurred.
    > * using the new JPA-like callbacks in Cayenne
    > * automated live backups of the Derby database
    > * replication system for data between the onCourse database and
    > another (web site) database using SOAP
    > * use of paging in Cayenne to speed up display of large lists of
    > records over slow links
    >
    > Considerable thanks are due to Andrus for the considerable work he
    > has done with us to accelerate the implementation of some Cayenne
    > features and fix a few bugs we managed to unearth along the way.
    >
    > Anyhow, the product is free to download and use, so feel free to
    > play. It is designed for an Australian environment and this is only
    > an early release, so we have much still to do.
    >
    > http://www.ish.com.au/oncourse
    >
    > When I get a chance, I'll write a case study for the Cayenne site.
    >
    >
    > Cheers
    > Ari Maniatis
    >
    >
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    > ish
    > http://www.ish.com.au
    > Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia
    > phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001
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