Future of WebObjects?
Future of WebObjects?
- Subject: Future of WebObjects?
- From: Dov Rosenberg <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 10:28:50 -0400
There has been a lot of discussion lately about the total lack of WebObjects
news from Apple at WWDC. This got me wondering a bit as to what everyone was
expecting. I have been using WebObjects since 3.5 back in 1997.
Since Apple migrated to full Java support in 5.x they have been able to
leverage all of the technology being brought forward by the Java community.
Our WO apps use JMS, XML (not the WebObjects provided APIs), XSL, RSS, PDF
generation, Microsoft Excel generation, reading Word files, etc. We have
never been slowed down because of lack of WebObjects implementation of a
particular technology. If Apple doesn't provide it - someone else on the
planet does!!
So what announcements were people expecting from Apple regarding WO? A new
version of Xcode - who cares I use Eclipse with great satisfaction. Some new
features in the API's? If I can't find a feature or function in the Apple
API, the new Java 1.4x API is very full featured and useful.
The fact that WebObjects has supported Servlet deployment since 5.x has made
the fact that native deployments on Linux can't be easily done totally mute.
I have never been a fan of Monitor. I would much rather give my customer a
WAR or JAR file and let them deploy my app on any platform they have a J2EE
Servlet engine on. Then the discussion with the IT department of whether I
am using WebObjects is also mute - I am a J2EE application!
Bottom line - Apple is not a tool company like Borland, but they have some
kick ass APIs and technologies (WebObjects, EOF, Quicktime, Rendezvous, etc)
that are far ahead of the rest of the pack. Accept the fact the WOBuilder
and EOModeler suck, use Dreamweaver or notepad and Eclipse/ANT/WOLips.
--
Dov Rosenberg
Conviveon Corporation
http://www.conviveon.com
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