historical context ...
historical context ...
- Subject: historical context ...
- From: Gavin Eadie <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:43:22 -0700
In one of today's WebObjects sessions at WWDC, it was asked how old
WebObjects really is. Work started on it in 1994 and ...
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October 1995
According to Steve Jobs, CEO of NeXT, Inc., the future of the Web
lies in dynamic information and increased interactivity. NeXT's bid
to hasten that future is WebObjects, a new object-oriented toolkit
for developing Web applications.
Based on the NextStep object-oriented development environment,
WebObjects allows for easy programming of Web applications, as well
as easy creation of plug-ins for Web browsers.
The approach, which supports development for Sun's Java, will allow
programmers to vastly expand offerings on the Web, changing it from a
fairly static medium to a more interactive one.
New technologies like WebObjects will soon allow Webmasters to create
programs that can more easily generate customized pages built on the
fly. Such flexibility would allow merchants to more easily use the
Web for marketing and commerce. WebObjects will support security
standards such as SSL and S-HTML to enforce security when exchanging
sensitive data such as credit card numbers.
WebObjects leverages NeXT's other object technologies, such as
Enterprise Objects for accessing databases. In demonstrations at
Object World in September [1995], Jobs showed how WebObjects can
create HTML pages on the fly using information pulled from an outside
database. Users visiting the Chrysler Corp. site could compare the
different kinds of cars the company offers, preview their preferred
model in different colors and with different options, and then work
out the financing directly on the Web. The HTTP server would search
for the requested information in the Chrysler database and return the
appropriate data.
Using another object, the server would apply the potential customer's
financial choices, then calculate prices and financing for this
custom choice. This will require very little programming, as
WebObjects is based on object-oriented programming, which essentially
allows programmers to create building-blocks that can be used to
exhibit different behaviors, have different properties, and be reused
for other occasions.
One of the great advantages of WebObjects is its portability: It will
run on Windows NT, Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, Digital's UNIX, and NeXT's
MachOS. The WebObjects framework will use existing servers'APIs.
Additionally, NeXT will include an HTTP server as part of WebObjects
for added performance and better integration of objects. Pricing for
WebObjects has not been set.
In the online objects race, NeXT will compete with Microsoft Corp.,
which plans to use its Blackbird technology to leverage OLE (Object
Linking and Embedding) for Windows-based servers.
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