Re: Anything new on the Horizon of Webobjects
Re: Anything new on the Horizon of Webobjects
- Subject: Re: Anything new on the Horizon of Webobjects
- From: Colin Clark <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:43:36 -0500
Yawn. Do we really have to go through this again?
WebObjects works. It is being maintained and updated regularly by Apple
(5.2.2, anyone?). People are using WebObjects for large production
applications. It forms the basis for Apple's own innovative Web
application products. It's also cloaked in a lot of secrecy, is poorly
advertised, and is complicated to learn for a beginner. But it's
certainly not a dying technology.
The key to making a decision about technology like this is to evaluate
your needs in terms of cost, support, and flexibility. WebObjects is
not open-source, Tapestry/Hibernate (or Cayenne) are. WebObjects
provides a supported, comprehensive, integrated solution for page
templating, database persistence, and deployment. Other solutions tend
to be more of a mix-and-match, multiple vendor solution. These are
project-specific needs that you likely know best. I think Tapestry has
gained a lot of legitimacy from its involvement with the Jakarta
project, and looks like a great tool.
No one knows for sure what the future of WebObjects is. It's clear from
attending WWDC that it is still being actively developed and the WO
team has a vision for the future. Now if they'd only tell us... ;)
If anything is dead here, it's the "Is WebObjects Dead?" discussions
that seem to have persisted for the past several years. If you really
want to go back and read other discussions on this matter, have a look
at the Omnni list archives.
Colin
On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 11:07 AM, James Hays wrote:
This question may have been asked before, and if it has, please point
me to the responses gathered from it. But, other than this list, I
have seen very little drive for web objects? Is this a dieing
technology? Is it being replaced? Apple makes very little reference
to it in their training and WWDC makes it seem like it died 3 years
ago. All other technologies are up beat saying, this is what we are
doing. Webobjects presentations are, this is what we've done.
I'm at a crucial junction in my decision making. .Net is not an
option, Struts sucks, and Tapestry looks very good. My current debate
is between a Tapestry/Hibernate model or going with WebObjects. I
would like to know what kind of work is being done for the future of
webobjects and what will drive it into the future?
Thanks.
James
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