WebObjects® Developer's Guide

Developing the Stateless Application Components

We have a stateless component that needs to be developed before the application can be fully stateless. That is, the stateless equivalent of the WebObjects component WOBatchNavigationBar.

Unlike the list of forums on the main page, which might be limited to one page, the lists of topics per forum and posts on a topic could overflow into several pages.

To organize and navigate these pages, we will need a direct action equivalent of WOBatchNavigationBar.

Converting a WOExtensions Component

We are fortunate enough to have the source to the WOBatchNavigationBar component. This will make customizing it easy.

Start by creating a development project WABatchNavigationBarTest to build the component in isolation. ...