Re: Cocoa CGI
Re: Cocoa CGI
- Subject: Re: Cocoa CGI
- From: Deirdre Saoirse Moen <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 01:25:53 -0700
At 3:55 PM -0500 5/16/01, Chris Hanson wrote:
At 8:48 AM -0700 5/16/01, Ryan Dary wrote:
Is it possible to write a CGI using Cocoa?
Have you looked at WebObjects? That's essentially what it is.
Well, it's an application server, which isn't really the same thing.
A CGI can be written in virtually any language and conforms to the
common gateway interface. I've heard of them being written in
languages as obscure (from a web development perspective) as Cobol;
I've written them in C, C++, Python, Perl and PHP. I'm gonna have to
do one in Obj-C now, just because I can. :)
WebObjects 4.5.1 runs on Mac OS X 10.0 and lets you build web
applications in Objective-C. Apple says WebObjects 5 will be 100%
Java, but it's not out yet. You can also run WebObjects 4.5.1 on
Mac OS X Server 1.2 and use either Objective-C or Java.
That's the thing -- if WebObjects with ObjC had a future, that's what I'd use.
However, it doesn't and I prefer not to code in Java.
Though I love EOModeler, I'd rather code in PHP without it than in
Java with it. And I'd love to have EOModeler available for ObjC
without it being tied to WO.
Let's face it -- database connectivity really is a fundamental thing,
especially these days.
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