Apple WebObjects 3.5 - Manual (Page 52)

Chapter 2 Enhancing Your Application
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10. In the object browser, click application .
There is an entry in the second column for the allGuests application variable
you created. This entry appears in the Main component as well, since
application variables are accessible from anywhere in the code.
If you click allGuests , you’ll see in the third column an entry for count . This is
a standard method that returns the number of objects in the array.
11. Click count and drag to the center rectangle to bind it to the WOString’s
value attribute.
12. Save the GuestList component.
You need to do one more thing so that the GuestList page now displays
when the user submits the form.
13. Go back to Project Builder and view the source code for Main.java . Replace the
return statement in the submit method with the following code:
return application().pageWithName("GuestList");
allGuests. count represents the number
of objects in the array. Drag to bind it to the
WOString.