Re: EOF - was (Cocoa Books (was New to Cocoa) )
Re: EOF - was (Cocoa Books (was New to Cocoa) )
- Subject: Re: EOF - was (Cocoa Books (was New to Cocoa) )
- From: Jeff LaMarche <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 12:33:58 -0700 (PDT)
On Monday, Oct 14, 2002, at 11:48AM, Douglas A. Welton <email@hidden> wrote:
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I have a question: As much as this topic comes up, why hasn't some
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commercial software vendor jumped in to fill the hole left when EOF was
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re-positioned without Objective C? Are these vendors simply leaving money
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on the table?
I'm guessing that this is not perceived as a gap with much profit potential because EOF is, by its nature, primarily a tool for developing persistent, large-scale (and scalable) applications. The Mac is not perceived as a heavyweight in this particular market and Apple hasn't shown a real desire to make inroads into it. It would probably be hard to justify the ROI for developing this type of framework for a niche development platform that runs on a tiny percentage of the target audience (potential client machines).
If this is going to get written, my guess is that it's going to done be by a person or small team that needs a persistence framework for their own use.
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Perhaps someone has and I'm just not aware of it, but it seems to me that
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you can *always* build a better mousetrap. Is there someone out there
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that's building a "better" EOF? Is there someone out there who has simply
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taken the ball out of Apple's hands by building an entity-relationship
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modeling framework that does not rely on any software patents or technology
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that Apple (nee NeXT) whipped up a decade ago?
I would guess that there already is, or will be soon, something very similar to EOF for assisting in developing Enterprise applications in Java (besides WebObjects).
Just my 2 cents...
Jeff
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