[cobalt-users] Re: Seeking additional Qube3 documentation

[Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> I am looking for additional software development documentation for
> the Qube3.  I have "The Qube 3 Software Architecture Developer's
> Guide", but it seems to leave out quite a bit.  I'm not expecting an
> O'Reilly book, although that would be great, but better
> documentation on the user interface classes would be very helpful. 
> I have already downloaded enough source code that I can get by, but
> that can be slow.

Hate to disappoint you, but what you see is what there is.  There was 
never enough demand to justify producing something like that... at 
least in the bean-counter opinion. VARs and end-users alike were 
screaming for it, but since it was something that would be given 
away, yet cost a fairly substantial amount to produce, it was not 
given (IMO) proper priority and consideration.

Oh yeah, and the Sausalito version used on RaQ 550 is different (to an 
unknown degree) than that which is on the Qube 3, and _that_ version 
is the 'final' version of what was released on XTR (which is a 
half-and-half amalgamation of "old" RaQ 4-like Perl "special sauce" 
and "new" Sausalito)...  The fact that RaQ 550 Sausalito was 
different from Qube 3 wasn't told to the sales force or field 
engineers until days before, possibly even after, product launch.

A Qube 3 guide to be used for technical training classes (similar to 
the RaQ 4 "Nuts and Bolts: Behind the Browser" class that was once 
offered) was nearly, if not actually, completed.  But nothing was 
ever done with it.  It is rumored that there is one "sample app" 
chapter in that guide which has the most complete and thorough 
explanation of Sausalito captured anyplace, with a step-by-step guide 
to creating an application and packaging it for the Qube 3.

I'll drop the old courseware developer an email (if he's still there!) 
and see if he has any idea whether Sun will release that document or 
not...



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Bruce Timberlake

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