Re: Why WebObjects?
Re: Why WebObjects?
- Subject: Re: Why WebObjects?
- From: Arturo Pérez <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 20:37:14 -0400
On May 20, 2004, at 6:40 PM, Lotsa Cabo wrote:
I am curious, however, why other people have chosen it.
My reasons:
The time: 1999.
We were running a pure Perl front-end (web end) environment with the
middle tiers written in C. After 5 years not one new feature had been
added to the product. The difficulties of finding good C programmers
and the impenetrability of Perl was taking its toll on our ability to
do RAD. So I decided it was time to switch to Java for this type of
work.
We built some applications using ColdFusion. I hated it.
We built a prototype application using Java servlets. It was
extraordinarily difficult to do front-end work with just servlets. JSP
hadn't been invented/widely deployed at that time.
I cast about for something as RAD as ColdFusion but actually
maintainable and scalable. We paper evaluated WebLogic, Sapphire and
WebObjects. WO came out on top.
Using WO we built 7 new applications within 18 months, including two
back office applications. One of the products ended up with 3 faces so
some might count the total as 9 or 10. Concurrently with this effort,
another group using J2EE struggled for months to deliver (that ended up
being cancelled). Another J2EE-based application was delivered 4
months late, missed its marketing goals and failed miserably.
Two of the products got back-ported to Struts in 2002 (our CTO didn't
like WO much. It prevented him from offshoring to his Indian buddies).
The first back-port took 6 months. The original product development
with WO took 8 weeks. The second back-port took 5-6 months and left
out about 30% of the product as "too difficult to implement" and did
not port the back-office support application. The original development
for both the product and the support application took 2 months.
So, I use WO because I have found it to be at least 3x more productive
than the current alternatives. In addition, it facilitates
functionality that is "too difficult to implement" using Struts, JDBC,
et al.
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