WebObjects/GVC Frameworks

The GVC Frameworks evolved from projects implemented by GVC [Global Village Consulting] for over 10 years. One of the most recent projects that use these frameworks is [GVC.SiteMaker], an Open Source CMS that allows non-technical users to create highly customized websites and web databases. The following are some of the main frameworks included in this release: • GVCEOFExtensions – Provides loads of Enterprise Objects Frameworks (EOF) additions and custom qualifiers. • GVCEOFValidation – Provides enhancements to standard EOF validation, including code-free, customizable, localizable validation messages and more extensive validation. • GVCFoundation – Contains Foundation extensions such as Boolean, Date, BigDecimal, String, NSArray. • GVCEOPrototypes – Contains standard set of Enterprise Objects (EO) prototypes that can be used for multiple frameworks and WebObjects applications. It currently supports prototypes for DB2, FrontBase, JDBC, MySQL and Oracle databases. • GVCGenericObjects – Contains classes designed for easy lookup, localization and archival of objects. • GVCSecurity – Contains classes that provide security or different access rights for users or groups in a WebObject’s application. • GVCVirtualTables – Contains classes that provide a virtual representation of database tables which can be accessed via Key Value Coding (KVC). • GVCKerberos – Contains a simple wrapper class around some of the functionality in the WedgeTail JSCI Kerberos classes. It implements a very simple Kerberos authentication of a user ID and password. • GVCMail – Contains convenience classes for sending email messages and support for fault tolerant sending of bulk messages. • GVCWOExtensions – Contains extensions to WOApplication, WOComponent, WODirectAction, WOSession and other AppServer classes. • GVCJNDIAdditions – Extends the JNDI adaptor to support secure communication with an LDAP server. Transport Layer Security (TLS) provides a mechanism for ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of the transferred data. The GVC Frameworks were developed in parallel with Project Wonder so you will find a lot of duplication in the extensions to Foundation, EOF, and WO areas. But there is a lot of unique stuff too and alternative implementations of things like localization. Eventually this might all get merged into Wonder, but that is a lot of effort and we are busy now. Download from [SourceForge] - see File Releases.