Re: Status of Windows support
Re: Status of Windows support
- Subject: Re: Status of Windows support
- From: Colin Clark <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 13:43:29 -0500
On Monday, January 31, 2005, at 06:48 PM, Lachlan Scott wrote:
Can someone tell me about the status of Windows support for WO
development generally, please?
For example, are the development tools on a par with the OSX tools;
are
there issues in development or deployment created by the cross-platform
work, etc? Any feedback at all and outrageous opinions generally :-)
would be of interest.
The user experience developing WebObjects applications on Windows is
significantly more difficult than on Mac OS X. Unless you're willing to
take on the extra work of using third party tools such as WOProject and
WOLips to work around Apple's dismal support for the Windows platform,
I'd run away from WO on Windows screaming. It's terrible. Some people
manage to be productive using WebObjects on Windows--I was one of them
for awhile--but it does involve a lot of extra work. That said, I think
the WOLips team has done an excellent job of making working with WO on
Windows possible at all.
As for outrageous opinions, I'd suggest taking a look at standard,
open-source solutions such as Hibernate, Cayenne, or Tapestry which
provide similar toolkits to WebObjects in a much more cross
platform-friendly environment.
Best of luck,
Colin
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Colin Clark
Dynamic Web and Database Development Lead,
Resource Centre for Academic Technology,
University of Toronto
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