Re: Objective-C with WebObjects?
Re: Objective-C with WebObjects?
- Subject: Re: Objective-C with WebObjects?
- From: Chris Hanson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 17:36:47 -0600
On Jan 26, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Lotsa Cabo wrote:
Can I use Objective-C for development with WO?
No. This is pretty clearly spelled out in the various documentation
with WebObjects 5 and later.
If not, is there one language that I can learn/use for both
service-level development as well as web development?
You can do it in Java. But the native language of the Cocoa frameworks
is Objective-C, so you'll have much better support from the community,
sample code, etc. writing native Mac OS X applications with it.
I need to build a project from start to finish. This project has a
web front-end and several services that will need to run in the
background. I had planned on using WebObjects to build the front end.
However, someone on another list said that Objective-C is what I will
need to use to do the services. I would just hate to use learn/use
two separate languages to do this.
Why would you hate to have to learn or use two separate languages?
They both have their strong points and you'll be a better programmer
for knowing and having some experience with both.
However, depending on what these "services" are (do you mean daemons?)
you probably don't need to use Objective-C for it. You might be able
to more easily implement it in straight C, C++, Python, Java, Ruby,
Perl... Or it might be easiest to build in Objective-C. Use the best
tool for the job.
From reading your various posts, it sounds like it would probably be
worth your time to just sit down for a few hours with an experienced
Mac OS X and WebObjects developer and go over what you want to do and
see how they would do things. You can probably find someone willing to
do this with you through your local Mac user group or local developer
organization.
In the Chicago area, there are a couple: CAWUG, the Cocoa and
WebObjects User Group that meets at the Michigan Ave. Apple Store; and
PSIG, the Programming SIG associated with the Northwest of Us user
group that meets at the NWoU office in Palatine. In the San Francisco
Bay Area there's BANG. In the Pittsburgh area there's CocoaHeads.
They're everywhere...
-- Chris
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Chris Hanson <email@hidden>
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