Re: onCourse product launch

From: Lindsay Steele (lgsteel..mail.com)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2006 - 16:59:52 EDT

  • Next message: Aristedes Maniatis: "Re: onCourse product launch"

    Just too cover two replies in one.

    I think the app is great, I like the jiggling logon screen when you
    get an incorrect logon.

    Personally, I have been doing a few internal utility applications in
    Swing using cayenne's ROP and it has worked fantastically. Using
    Netbeans Matisse GUI builder allows for very quick and good looking
    interfaces. It has been a pleasure to work with and a much better
    experience than trying to do the same thing in a web application.
    You get instant AJAX and an over all quicker interface to both use and
    develop.

    Hope the ROP stuff gets even better.

    Andrus Adamchik wrote:
    > 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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