June 2002
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
7h 48m
English
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Implementing a WebObjects Dynamic Element
Finally, we get a chance to reimplement one of these XHTML components as a dynamic element. For this purpose we shall choose to reimplement WXImage.
First, a brief introduction to dynamic elements and how they differ from WebObjects components. They really are quite different, as we will soon discover.
Introduction to Dynamic Elements
A WebObjects Dynamic Element represents the smallest atom of the component architecture. They are lightweight objects that represent an HTML or XML element such as <img>, <body>, <a>, and <input>. As such, they lack many of the features available to WebObjects components.
You only need to implement anything as a dynamic element only on very rare occasions. One is when you ...