Apple To Announce WebObjects 6
Apple To Announce WebObjects 6
- Subject: Apple To Announce WebObjects 6
- From: Cephalo Podus <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 10:58:28 +0200
Our top reporter Nick Macchiavelli from
ThinkTopSecretRumorsWeWantSomeAdDollars.com just found out the
following from "sources close to the company":
WebObjects 6 will be a major upgrade that is planned to be announced
at WWDC. It will offer the following new features and technologies:
- Automator integration: instead of writing the business logic in Java
yourself, you can now build the complete workflow with Automator
(Tiger no longer required).
- DirectFromBrain: if you don't want to use Automator, you can have a
chip implanted directly into your brain that will implement the
business logic as you think about it. Project WONDER announced a major
improvement to DirectFromBrain which makes it possible to compile your
application even before you have started programming. The BrainClipse
plugin will be used to refactor the developer thoughts even before
DirectFromBrain implements them. The BrainClipse pre-alpha version
contains a minor bug that might affect your love life your speech
center. No details were given but a bug fix is expected soon.
- DirectToNewestJavaCollections: One core feature of WebObjects 6 will
be the ability to adapt itself to the Java Collections interfaces of
the Week. com.webobjects.foundation will contain NSAdaptiveArray that
will reprogram itself to suit the JDK that is currently en vogue.
Rumor has it that Cliff Tuel programmed the adaptive foundation
classes after reaching for his flapper to squash a little bee that was
flying through his office buzzing: "Foundation is bad, foundation is
bad!"
- DirectToNewestOSRelease: The WebObjects developer tools and
frameworks were rewritten to feature automatic API adaption. Thus, you
will not only be able to use future JDKs without any modification of
WO, but also every new OS release as the tools will adapt themselves
to the new APIs. WOBuilder now uses WebCore and is configurable to
look exactly like Dreamweaver, Golive or BBEdit (other skins available
upon request).
- DirectToProgrammingLanguage: Applications developed with Automator
or DirectFromBrain can generate source code in ObjectiveC, Webscript,
Java, Ruby or Perl. The frameworks that generates the Ruby source code
is reportedly called "WebObjects on Wheels" and is, of course, much
better than Java.
- DirectToMailingList: WebObjects 6 integrates a new feature into
every application that regularly sends depressed letters from a
whining developer to webobjects-dev. You can choose between various
pre-configured whinings (such as "Apple does not support WebObjects",
"Where is WebObjects for Mac OS 10.6 that will be released in two
years", "Why does XCode suck so much", "Why does the new WO release
not run on Rhapsody?", "Why does my old WO release not run on 10.7?",
"Why does Project Wonder break on a new WO release?"),
The whining will be repeated every time Apple does not announce a
major WO update, if Apple _does_ announce a major WO update, and if
Apple announces a new OS release. The e-mails will adapt automatically
to the situation so that you do not have to worry about writing them
yourselves.
DirectFromPracticalWO: Together with WebObjects 6, Apple also releases
a mailing list manager tool that will automatically find the right
page in Practical WebObjects to answer every question on the mailing
list. New solutions are automatically added to Practical WebObjects.
- DirectToOpenSource: WebObjects 6 will reveal its own source code
under a free software license of your choice with the click of a
button. Thus, everyone will be happy: those who only work with GPL'ed
code and those who don't want to.
- DirectToCustomerBuzzword: WebObjects 6 will automatically refactor
itself to contain the buzzword list your client likes best, no matter
if it is .NET, Ajax or J2EE.
- DirectToCustomerPrice: WebObjects will adjust its own price to the
client's idea of a robust enterprise framework. So if some of you play
the role of a cool consultant who only works with tools > USD 20,000,
WO will switch to "Oracle mode" and cost 50,000 USD again and an
additional 10$ per request per minute per CPU. Those who need open
source tools because they cannot use anything else for religious
reasons can use WO in GPL mode. In GPL mode, the GUIs will look a bit
crappier and this mode will be unsupported.
WebObjects 6 is also available for Windows Long- and Shorthorn editions.
Live Long and Prosper!
Nick Macchiavelli
Editor-in-Chief of ThinkTopSecretRumorsWeWantSomeAdDollars.com
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