EOF Wiki
Welcome
This is the Objective-C EOF Wiki. It started as the MulleEOF wiki but soon after setting it up, it seemed to be a good idea to make it a Wiki available for all EOF clones. So for people looking for an Objective-C EOF clone, this is the place to be.
This Wiki is wholly unconcerned about Java-EOF as available through WebObjects 5 from Apple.
From now on all references to EOF will always mean Objective-C EOF and Java will be ignored.
If you are not that familiar with EOF and it's history, you can read a good historical overview on Wikipedia.
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Description
EOF is commonly referred to as a database abstraction layer. And it is also a toolkit of various components that can be used independently for programs without any database access. So it pays to get familiar with EOF, even if your application doesn't access a database. EOF traditionally has been separated in three frameworks
- EOControl the abstraction layer that provides the groundwork for the editing and persistance of objects
- EOInterface the GUI component, that ties AppKit to EOControl
- EOAccess for the concrete use of EOControl. It contains an EOObjectStore subclass, that uses one orr multiple SQL databases
for persistance
Articles
Articles about EOControl
- What problems can EOFault solve for you ?
- What is the entity concept in EOControl ?
Articles about EOInterface
- How changes in EOEnterpriseObjects propagate to EOAssociations' subjectChanged details the control flow starting with [self willChange]
- Who retains who when a NIB is loaded
Documentation
Documentation for EOF is available from Apple on the developer site.
Also some of these links may be helpful, as EOF became a part of WebObjects at some point in history
Implementations
The original
- Enterprise Objects Framework by Apple
and the clones
Related Projects
- BDControl qualifier and sort ordering
- MulleConnectInspector for Interface Builder 2.4
