Re: WebObjects vs. Servlet
Re: WebObjects vs. Servlet
- Subject: Re: WebObjects vs. Servlet
- From: Arturo Pérez <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:28:40 -0500
On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 01:42 PM, Bob McCormick wrote:
But one way or another, how does WOF fits in the picture?
Well, that is the essence of the question that I posed originally. Is
WO capable of doing this type of thing, or is a Servlet a better
mechanism? From the sounds of it, it appears that maybe WO isn't the
best choice for this bit of functionality. Looks like I'll need to do
additional research to determine true feasibility.
Well, it depends on what you're trying to achieve. I would wager that
anything you can do with a servlet you can do with WO. But it sounded
like you wanted to write a server that could talk some unusual
protocol, like FTP :-)
One way to think about it is to try to play to WO's strengths.
Are you doing database (RDBMS) stuff?
Are you vending objects? That is, are you serving up data that can be
construed as O-O?
Are you creating data representations on-the-fly from some sort of
data storage representation?
Is access to this vended data governed by business rules?
If your idea needs any of the above then WO may be a sensible choice.
But you would probably end up foregoing a lot
of the dynamics elements bundled with WO (WORepetition, WOHyperlink,
etc). Unless you can use XML (for which WO
offers decent support) it may be worthwhile looking elsewhere.
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