WebObjects® Developer's Guide

Testing the Model with DirectToWeb

One of the most important parts of developing and designing an object model is the testing of it.

It is difficult to emphasize how important it is to test the model during the development phase. It might seem like an awful lot of time is spent on testing and fine-tuning your object model, but the dividends that pay are huge.

In many cases, the application just falls into place when you have a well-developed object model.

So most of your development time ought to be spent on developing your object model. This shouldn't mean spending time to add bells and whistles. As you might discover with experience, keeping the model as simple as possible is the key to being successful with Enterprise Objects. So instead, ...