Re: WebObjects Foundation
Re: WebObjects Foundation
- Subject: Re: WebObjects Foundation
- From: Arturo Pérez <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:54:19 -0400
Excellent and amazing comments all.
Having gone against management to use WO and having had to explain
many times to the ignorant J2EE/Struts/Hibernate crowd I have one
humble suggestion.
Build complete opensource solutions based on WO. For a system with
such fantastic ease of use in creating webapplications there is a
complete vacuum of turnkey solutions for various things.
Blogging:
Where's a WO-based solution for blogging? We all know we could
build one in a few weeks with WO and Wonder. So why isn't there one?
Content Management:
There are so many content management applications out there, where's
the opensource WO-based one? (Yeah, I know, GVC just came out).
Project Management?
Bug Tracking?
Anything that needs a database to function properly. Media galleries
(video, audio, photo). Inventory/asset management systems. CRMs.
PIMs. School information systems (that's what I was working on in my
spare time). We need to provide and eat our own dog food.
Subsystems even: authentication, authorization, etc. Having watched
this list for the last 6-7 years, why do we still get people asking
how to make a login app, for chrissake?!
I think when one looks at the software market and can see 50
(admittedly lousy) blogs written using J2EE and none using WO then
the conclusion is obvious.
We need to opensource more WO stuff, we need to make a massive WO-
SourceForge and then I think we may get some traction akin to what
RoR gets.
Wonder is an excellent framework. Now let's make some excellent
applications/solutions to really show off what we can do. Then, when
people see the things that just cannot be done as well or as easily
with other technology, they will really take notice. IMHO, the only
reason J2EE has as much momentum as it does is because there are tens/
hundreds of thousands of developers contributing slowly and painfully
to it. Can you imagine what a WO-based solution suite would be like
if it had that kind of manpower thrown at it?
-arturo
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