Crafting the Interface for Posting Topics and Replies
If you are familiar enough with Enterprise Object control logic, and how to insert and save objects to a database, then you can skip this entire section.
Otherwise, it might prove to be a necessary exercise at extending a read-only interface that we have crafted for the online forum.
The purpose of this iteration is to create and define the interface for logging in, posting a new topic, and submitting a reply.
We are going to branch off the first application prototype we developed in Chapter 10, “Rapid Prototyping with WebObjects,” because this would be easier than implementing this functionality as a stateless, direct-actionable component. So start off by making a copy of the first forum ...
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