Re: [Wonder-disc] Using Wonder in non-web apps

[David H. <pro...@ma...>]

Hi Ricardo:

You'll want to look at Application.java in ERMailer (under the  
Applications directory of Wonder) which extends ERXApplication and I  
think it does exactly the sort of thing you wish to accomplish.

David


On 2-Jul-09, at 6:00 AM, Ricardo J. Parada wrote:

> Just unfamiliarity with how to subclass it correctly to make it do  
> exactly what I want it to do.
>
>
>
> On Jul 2, 2009, at 5:57 AM, David Avendasora wrote:
>
>> I'm unclear as to why your would not extend ERXApplication in your  
>> back end apps, even if they aren't web apps. What are you trying  
>> to avoid? Having them respond to outside requests?
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> On Jul 1, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Ricardo J. Parada wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I have back end processes that are not web apps.  I call them  
>>> agents.  They are packaged like a web app, i.e. MyAgent.woa but  
>>> the main class does not extend ERXApplication or WOApplication.   
>>> In fact it extends a class called Agent that has Object as its  
>>> super class.
>>>
>>> It has a static method and I currently call ERXApplication.setup 
>>> (argv).  That goes through the same intialization as a Wonder app  
>>> which is something I desire.  :-)
>>>
>>> But then I noticed that ERXProperties does not load the  
>>> Properties files from my frameworks.  Then inspecting  
>>> ERXProperties source I noticed that the  
>>> pathsForUserAndBundleProperties() method returns an empty array  
>>> because it does not see a WOApplication :
>>>
>>> public static NSArray pathsForUserAndBundleProperties(boolean  
>>> reportLoggingEnabled) {
>>>         NSMutableArray propertiesPaths = new NSMutableArray();
>>>         NSMutableArray projectsInfo = new NSMutableArray();
>>>         String projectPath, aPropertiesPath;
>>>         WOApplication application = WOApplication.application();
>>>         if (application == null) {
>>>             log.warn("The application is not yet initialized.  
>>> Returning an empty array.");
>>>             return NSArray.EmptyArray;
>>>         }
>>>
>>>
>>> 	...
>>> }
>>>
>>> Am I out of luck?  Should I have MyAgent subclass ERXApplication  
>>> and just override the run method?
>>>
>>> Any ideas?  Am I the only one who has back end apps that are not  
>>> web apps?  :-)
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Ricardo
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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