From: James Cicenia <email@hidden>
Subject: WireHose?
To: "WebObjects (Group)" <email@hidden>
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Just wondering if anyone has used WireHose?
yes indeed. Im working on my second WireHose project at CodeFab and will probably have a third starting in a week or two.
Is it worth it? What do people like or dislike about it?
WireHose rocks. Gary Teter has written some amazing code to do many, many very hard things really easily and fast. That said, it is a big beast to swallow and requires some commitment to building a WireHose WebObjects app. It may take you a couple of weeks to really figure it out so you are doing things the right way.
WireHose is a portal builder's dream. Imagine you are building MyYahoo or GoogleNews - you have channels of information, user specific custom layouts, permission management so you can have varying levels of access or multiple logical portals within a single app. It also has amazing browsing/indexing/tagging/searching features, so you can do an amazing job providing search tools with little to no effort.
I need to do a new app for a client. Mainly a database of
products with a bit of extranet features.
The caveat is probably that WireHose is for building apps/portals with a certain set of features. See the Paizo site (
http://www.paizo.com/) for a good example of the kind of thing it does well.
If you are looking for a skin-able product catalog, maybe you should be looking at sPearCat (
http://www.spearcat.com/) instead. Another piece of amazing WO engineering from Pierre Frisch!
Thanks,
James Cicenia