Re: onCourse product launch

From: Andrus Adamchik (andru..bjectstyle.org)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2006 - 09:34:12 EDT

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    And don't forget - this is written in Swing! Doing such UI with Java
    is a big achievement on its own.

    Andrus

    On Sep 28, 2006, at 7:40 AM, Malcolm Edgar wrote:
    > 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
    >>
    >>
    >> -------------------------->
    >> ish
    >> http://www.ish.com.au
    >> Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia
    >> phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001
    >> GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A
    >>
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