ECO is a great framework but for newcomers it really might be hard to learn. Many people on the ECO newsgroup ask for more and more resources/links/documentation.
Now the documentation is being continuously improved. Peter makes it possible.
I have some old ECO2-3 links in my Google Bookmarks. So I think I need to share them (is it possible to do it from Google Bookmarks? Like Google Reader Shared items?).
Special set of links are:
- http://www.capableobjects.com - this is the first place to start - official company web site.
- http://mrpmorris.blogspot.com - Peter Morris' blog. The most advanced and informative ECO blog.
- http://homepages.borland.com/ecoteam/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Eco.EcoIII - Wiki-like site with some very useful information.
- ECO on the WiKi.
- ECO newsgroup - google it or ask on the NNTP server.
There used to be a nice site http://www.myecospace.net where the doc that describes most of ECO services was available. Best ever. Not sure where it is now.
Other links are below. They are not well grouped, so you'll have to figure out what is what :)
- How to reverse engineer the .Text database into Eco
- AJAX with ASP.NET and ECO
- Malcolm Groves ECO Blog - there are no new posts, but old ones might be interesting for you.
- BLOGGING WITH DELPHI - some parts are available there.
- Anders Ivner Blog
- Jesper Hogstrom CodeGear Blog - probably not maintained anymore.
- Jonas Hogstrom CodeGear Blog - probably not maintained anymore.
- ECO 2 under the hood.
- Code Derived Associations.
- ReadSQL by Thomas Wolf - interesting ECO extension in the newsgroup.
- Unleashing enterprise models with Borland Delphi 8 Architect (An in-depth look at the features of ECO using a real-life sample application) - great PDF, somehow not well known.
- Combining ECO OCL constraint validation with ASP.NET page validation - nice post from Peter Morris.
- Code Derived Columns in ECO 2.
- Real-life complexity with ECO2 - Project Planner application with Gantt Chart.
- A Multi-Client-ECO application example.
- Report Writing for an ECO Application.
- ASP.NET Role-base Authentication - BDNTv.
- Persistence Mappers For Enums - good starting point to create your own mappers.
- Deriving a model from an existing database with ECO II in Delphi 2005 - BDNTv.
- ECO Association Classes.
- ECO 2 and ASP.NET Web Applications.
- What is ECO anyway?
- Using VCL.NET with ECO.
- How to reverse engineer the .Text database into Eco
There is also another set of ECO resources. It probably intersects with my list but have a look.