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Refining Main.wo

You may have noticed that your application doesn't list fetched movies in any particular order. Also, when you insert a new movie, it appears in the list of movies as a blank line.

In this section you'll tidy up the user interface to fix these things and a few others. Specifically, you'll:

Configure movieDisplayGroup to sort the movies it displays.
Assign default values to new Movie objects.
Change the way that dates and numbers are displayed.

You can also put the query part of the page in a table and capitalize Main.wo's text field labels--for example, use "Title" instead of "title" and "Date Released" instead of "dateReleased."

WebObjects 4.5 Developer Documentation

Refining Main.wo

Specifying a Sort Order

Specifying Default Values for New Enterprise Objects

Setting a Date Format

Setting a Number Format

Optional Exercise