WebObjects® Developer's Guide

Modeling the Entities and Their Attributes

Hopefully our brief introduction to the concepts and the exercise of building a game with Enterprise Objects will be sufficient for us to begin modeling an online forum.

We are lucky that this is often a well-defined and very familiar application to model. As I am sure that you have come across an online message board system or discussion forum.

For this first stage we'll keep things simple by modeling an almost anonymous discussion forum where messages are posted with an alias. We can avoid introducing the concept of a User and logins to develop and test the object model for Post, Topic, and Forum. After we have done this we'll incorporate a User model into the Forum system.

Setting Up a Database and ...