Thanks Jacques, definitely something to look into. The advantage of tools that generate files once as aposed to a dynamic scenario is of course speed since you compile the generated files.
Once you've learn't how to work this naked objects MVC you could easily create an enhanced fruit basket I suppose, with some parent child relationships. Have you looked at the CSLA.Net framework? There are Codesmith templates that will auto generate all the DAL (data access layer) classes, and the purely business classes all for you in one go provided you have set up foreign key constraints in your data model, your SQL database. Now they claim also to create a sort of admin web or Silverlight GUI, but Ihaven't managed to do this with the templates at the time I looked at them.
Cheers On 12/2/2010 1:58 PM, Jacques Bosch wrote:
Hi all. While investigating tools for really rapid application development (RAD) I came across this most interesting framework called Naked Objects MVC. Rather than retyping what it does, here is the 3 line description from the site: "Naked Objects MVC combines the power of the naked objects pattern with Microsoft's ASP.NET MVC 2 framework. Now you can take a POCO domain object model and turn it into a fully-functional web application in minutes, without writing a single line of user interface code. You can then customise the generic user interface by adding custom style sheets, custom views and custom controllers, following standard ASP.NET patterns." The URL is www.nakedobjects.net Since the UI is dynamically generated from the domain model (classes) a blind developer could write an entire system, or a vast majority of it in C# and not have to worry about creating a UI. I think this is pretty powerful stuff, even for sighted developers. Note, it does not generate a UI to static files, like some other tools do, it in stead dynamically generates the UI at runtime. It therefore reeds to be installed on the server hosting the MVC web application. A developer license costs $399, but there is a fully functional evaluation version that can be used as long as you want. Only when taking it into production would you have to buy a license. This technology has also been matured over quite a few years and has been proven in production. Although I have not yet used Naked Objects myself, the guy behind Naked Objects, Richard Pawson, has been extremely helpful in answering my questions. Currently it does not support AJAX, but seems like they have plans to completely AJAXify the dynamic UI in the next year to make it more performant and snappy for internet based applications. You can also checkout the forums: forum.nakedobjects.net It requires Visual Studio 2010 (or 2010 Express) and .Net framework 4.0. Anyway, I just thought this would be of particular interest to this list. Have fun. __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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