Deployment rather than development mode
Deployment rather than development mode
- Subject: Deployment rather than development mode
- From: Mark Wardle <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:40:05 +0100
Hi.
I'm having trouble getting WebObjects to run on system startup. I'm
trying to move away from developing in "direct" mode to running in
deployment mode.
I installed WO5.2 on Panther and recently upgraded to Tiger and WO5.3
SystemStarter start WebObjects doesn't work (but then again, it
seems to fail with any service I enter now - it did used to work
before the Tiger upgrade)
Running wotaskd manually *does* work.
I don't have any kind of WebObjects launchdaemons in /Library or /
System/Library. I thought I'd find com.apple.wotaskd sitting there
ready to be activated, but it isn't there!
I was inclined to re-install (also wondering maybe it was because I
installed as a non-root administrative user - that used to be a known
bug didn't it?) but I have WO5.3 now, and didn't want to further mess
up my installation by re-installing WO5.2 and then upgrading. How
would one re-install WO5.3 without going through the WO5.2 reinstall
+upgrade?
Finally, does anyone know the roadmap for WebObjects (well EOF to be
precise)? I'm slightly worried about where things are going as WO is
now no longer supported on anything but Mac OS X. Does that mean Mac
OS X specific features will creep in and make deployment on other
platforms impossible? Should I have stayed with 5.2? Then again, why
was EOF originally made in ObjC, moved to Java, and then a different,
but less powerful framework created for ObjC(Core data)? It's
certainly got me puzzled. Why can't I use the same frameworks in
client- and server-based applications? It would be nice to create
standalone client applications that could synchronise data changes
with a server and thus support "disconnected mode" - there's no easy
way of doing this as far as I can see. Why has the Java bridge been
deprecated - Does that mean things are going to be increasingly
difficult to support as the system evolves? Would I be better tossing
the whole lot in and going for hibernate/cayenne?!? I'd rather not,
as I've never been more productive than with WO/EOF, but such is the
problem with tracking a proprietary platform. It would just be nice
to know where we're going to be taken!
Thanks,
Mark
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Dr. Mark Wardle
Clinical research fellow and Specialist Registrar in Neurology,
C2-B2 link, Cardiff University, Heath Park, CARDIFF, CF14 4XN. UK
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