Pure Swing + EOF distribution channel

Hi,


I am trying to get a Swing application running and connecting to an EOF  
AppServer. I am trying to do it in a way that I have all and Swing only  
UI control. No nibs, no rules, no XML, all written in Swing and a part  
of the distributed desktop application.

The only lead Apple gives on this kind of applications is a two page  
how-to that describes how to make a Swing project, add the client side  
EOF jars, add an application URL property, and set the main class of  
the app to:
	com.webobjects.eoapplication.client.EOClientAppplicationSupport

This approach results in the app turning all the control to  
EOClientApplicationSupport, which then establishes a distribution  
channel, but also generates the UI and sends it back to the client. As  
described, this is NOT what I try to achieve.

I was tampering with skipping the switching of the main class of the  
app to EOClientApplicationSupport, and tried to establish a connection  
in my own code (see below). Did manage to get a distribution channel  
running, made a distributed object store and an editing context that  
took it as it's parent, but when trying to fetch data I get the  
exception (below) ON THE APPLICATION SERVER project (that is running in  
the background so I could connect to from the Swing app).

ANY kind of help would be very welcome as the only documentation I can  
find on the issue is EOF API reference. Is there a way to use EOF and  
it's ClientApplicationSupport without giving all the control to the  
standard JC handling?


App server exception:
------------------------
[2005-11-08 14:10:53 CET] <WorkerThread9> <WOWorkerThread id=9  
socket=Socket[addr=/192.168.25.46,port=55839,localport=55710]>  
Exception while creating request: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:  
<com.webobjects.appserver.WORequest>: No URL was provided.; dropping  
connection
[2005-11-08 14:10:53 CET] <WorkerThread9>  
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:  
<com.webobjects.appserver.WORequest>: No URL was provided.
	at com.webobjects.appserver.WORequest.<init>(WORequest.java:212)
	at  
com.webobjects.appserver.WOApplication.createRequest(WOApplication.java: 
1734)
	at  
com.webobjects.appserver._private.WOHttpIO.readRequestFromSocket(WOHttpI 
O.java:345)
	at  
com.webobjects.appserver._private.WOWorkerThread.runOnce(WOWorkerThread. 
java:79)
	at  
com.webobjects.appserver._private.WOWorkerThread.run(WOWorkerThread.java 
:254)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:552)




My client side app code (main class of the test app):
-------------------------------
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

import javax.swing.*;

import com.webobjects.foundation.*;
import com.webobjects.eocontrol.*;
import com.webobjects.eoapplication.*;
import com.webobjects.eodistribution.client.*;

import client.*;		//EOs


public class JCTestClient extends JFrame {
	public JCTestClient() {
		
		super("");
		
		//set the distribution channel
		EODistributionChannel c = setupDistributionChannel();       // below
		EODistributedObjectStore doc = new EODistributedObjectStore(c);
		EOEditingContext ec = new EOEditingContext(doc);
		
		//fetch some data
		printSomeData(ec);
		
		setSize(640, 480);
		setVisible(true);
	}


	public static void main(String args[]) {
		new JCTestClient();
	}
	
	private EODistributionChannel setupDistributionChannel(){
		
		//create the connection dictionary
		NSMutableDictionary cd = new NSMutableDictionary();
		cd.setObjectForKey("http://hijkl.local:55710/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ 
JCTestAppServer.woa", "applicationURL");     //direct connect, changes  
every app server run
		cd.setObjectForKey("", "componentURL");
		cd.setObjectForKey("", "sessionID");
		cd.setObjectForKey("", "page");
		
		//get the channel
		EODistributionChannel e =   
com.webobjects.eodistribution.client.EODistributionChannel.channelWithNa 
me(
									"com.webobjects.eodistribution.client.EOHTTPChannel");

		//set the dictionary
		e.setConnectionDictionary(cd);

		e.establishConnection();
		return e;
	}
	
	private void printSomeData(EOEditingContext ec){
		EOFetchSpecification fs = new EOFetchSpecification("Student", null,  
null);
		Object[] students = ec.objectsWithFetchSpecification(fs).objects();
		for(int i = 0 ; i < students.length ; i++){
			System.out.println(students[i]);
		}
	}
}