Chapter 11. Basic Core Data
At this point, you’ve implemented an application that keeps track of an array of objects, takes care of undo, and handles saving and loading from a file. As you can imagine, there are an awful lot of applications like the one you just wrote.
Apple decided to make this type of application extremely easy to write:
• NSArrayController will hold on to an array of objects.
• Bindings will eliminate much of the glue code that would be necessary to keep the model objects in sync with the views.
• NSManagedObjectContext will observe the instance variables of your data objects and will take care of undo for you and loading and saving the data.
So, the punchline is: Using Core Data and bindings, the RaiseMan application that ...
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