WebObjects vs. Microsoft's .NET
WebObjects vs. Microsoft's .NET
- Subject: WebObjects vs. Microsoft's .NET
- From: Goodbye Bill <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 00:18:15 -0400
First, thanks to everyone that has helped me move from a Microsoft platform
to a Mac. Second, I need the advice from a few of you that can take a
minute or two to be brutally honest. What the heck is WebObjects good for?
I have been developing on a Microsoft platform for many years -- over the
last decade or so, all web stuff. I WANT to move to a Mac but I am finding
my hands tied. I just spent $700 on a copy of WebObjects, but it seems to
be worthless. Maybe it's me. Maybe its the online docs. Still, it doesn't
look like WebObjects really DOES anything.
From what I can tell, WebObjects brings EOModler to the table and will make
life easier for the "database-to-UI" tasks. Apparently, if I want to do
anything OTHER than read from a database I've got to code a separate Java
piece and then find some way to plug that piece into the site that I've
created using WebObjects.
In my example application, I am trying to create a web-based email service
(just for the learning aspect). Based on what I am finding (or NOT
finding), here is what I appear to need...
... the database is modeled using EOModler;
... the web-based front end is created using WO and ProjectBuilder; and,
... I will need to create a separate Java applet for any parsing
or manipulation of files and find some way to get the WO front end
to use those Java pieces.
Is this correct? If so, then what did I spend the $700 for? In .NET, for
example, everything is done in one IDE, with one language, and one set of
class files for everything -- although you CAN break out the various classes
and objects into separate projects, you are not forced to.
Can someone tell me what I'm missing?
Thanks! =(
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