WOBuilder Value
WOBuilder Value
- Subject: WOBuilder Value
- From: Jeremy Rosenberg <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:08:09 -0700
I've been working on WebObjects for about two years and apprenticed closely with developers who had been on board since the Objective-C days. The problem with losing the tools is that it takes WebObjects one step down and therefore closer to competing technologies. I've always felt that the clear, graphical way WOBuilder helps me quickly design my application interface has given it a big boost in my mindshare. If I am going to be editing HTML code then I am going to look at JSP2.0 and SpringMVC and like technologies to see what it has to offer that WebObjects doesn't. I still think WO is the gold standard for developing Web applications but they've slid back towards the pack a little bit this week and that pack keeps improving. Right now we have the most dedicated and talents members of the WO community throwing out everything from fabulous suggestions to irate diatribes. But who is going to take the lead here? We all have jobs to do, I work at a University and I would love to be able to throw the resources of the school behind an open source WOB but we are already several FTEs short and I can't imagine finding the time and resources to even help out.
These are the things that concern me and I assume much of the developer community. The direction of this technology seems to be swinging between unpredictable and doomed. I'm going to be an optimist and say that the unpredictable will turn into positive growth and that the people in this community won't let such a truly fantastic technology die. But I will feel a lot better when I see the road map that Apple has refused to provide come from somewhere else.
Jeremy
For WebObjects to move forward without WOBuilder, we need a visually- oriented tool that does the three things I described above. I am sure that some people don't need it, but many people do. To say that only newbies and klutzes use WOBuilder is an insult to many experienced developers, and I believe it shows a focus on the narrow coding issues rather than the overall productivity.
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