[argod]

Some might be in interested in knowing that the Store is WebObjects app. Another of those NeXT technologies.

here is the proof

http://pycs.net/bbum/

or if you don't want to read somebody's blog
just copy and paste the following link
into the Open Stream... panel.

itms://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/com.apple.jingle.app.store.DirectAction/viewAlbum?playlistId=123110

[gorickey]

Originally posted by argod:
or if you don't want to read somebody's blog
just copy and paste the following link
into the Open Stream... panel.

itms://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/com.apple.jingle.app.store.DirectAction/viewAlbum?playlistId=123110

You can also post that link into Safari and it will automatically open iTunes 4 and goto that Music Store page...



P.S. WebObjects is pretty incredible stuff...

[rmendis]

Originally posted by argod:
Some might be in interested in knowing that the Store is WebObjects app. here is the proof
http://pycs.net/bbum/

Interesting you came across Bill's site.
I've worked with him so we know each other

[chabig]

If you take the long Music Store URLs and change the protocol to http you can get the Music Store XML in your web browser. It'll display as text, but you can view the source and see how Apple generates each page.

I want to know how Bill gets the URLs from iTunes so he can make clickable links.

[sambeau]

Yeah. It is a WebObjects app server side - or at least WO produces a feed of XML for iTunes to render.

[tooki]

It is not in the slightest surprising, since the Apple online store has been running on WebObjects since, like, forever.

tooki

[itai195]

More appropriately, I believe it's a WebObjects web service, which is a big new feature in 5.2

[King Bob On The Cob]

Originally posted by chabig:
If you take the long Music Store URLs and change the protocol to http you can get the Music Store XML in your web browser. It'll display as text, but you can view the source and see how Apple generates each page.

I want to know how Bill gets the URLs from iTunes so he can make clickable links.

It's not really XML though, I looked at this before, It's some sort of bizarre text formatting

[normyzo]

You know, what else would Apple use? They kind of have to eat their own dogfood here. Its not like they would be running the Music Store on IIS. Perhaps Apache, but WebObjects is much faster at creating custom web applications.

Dan

[argod]

Originally posted by King Bob On The Cob:
It's not really XML though, I looked at this before, It's some sort of bizarre text formatting

What is not XML about the following
taken from http://radio.weblogs.com/0001103/2003/04/29.html#a1054




<TrackList>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>listType</key><string>search</string>
<key>priceFormat</key><string>$%0.2f</string>
<key>items</key>
<array>
<dict>

<key>kind</key><string>track</string>
<key>artistName</key> <string>The Flaming Lips</string>
<key>artistId</key><string>156604</string>
<key>bitRate</key><integer>128</integer>

<key>buyParams</key><string>productType=S&salableAdamId=192545&pri ce=990</string>
<key>price</key><integer>990</integer>



<key>copyright</key><string>
1995 Warner Bros. Label</string>




<key>duration</key><integer>171000</integer>


<key>fileExtension</key><string>m4p</string>
<key>genre</key><string>Rock</string>
<key>genreId</key><integer>21</integer>
<key>playlistName</key><string>Clouds Taste Metallic</string>
<key>playlistArtistName</key><string>The flaming Lips</string>

<key>playlistId</key><string>192563</string>
<key>previewURL</key><string>http://XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.m4p<;/string>
<key>relevance</key><string>0.13054071</string>

<key>sampleRate</key><integer>44100</integer>
<key>songId</key><integer>192545</integer>
<key>comments</key><string></string>
<key>trackCount</key><integer>13</integer>
<key>trackNumber</key><integer>10</integer>
<key>songName</key><string>Lightning Strikes the Postman</string>



</dict>

[argod]

Originally posted by itai195:
More appropriately, I believe it's a WebObjects web service, which is a big new feature in 5.2

Not quite Web Services like SOAP or XML-RPC

It is basically DirectAction links which are basically bookmarkable URL that are sessionless. All you are getting back is XML.