I have two questions still:
1. How and where to most effectively lobby for JC future with Apple,
or at least for an answer??? There seems to be enough interest for it
for some of us to work together in documenting this and exchanging
info, techniques and code, but we NEED TO KNOW (hint to Apple people)
is there any point in it ?
First, as I told in a precedent msg, it's important that Apple knows that JC is used and by whom. Maybe we can hope to get the source code of JC palettes to rewritte them for IB v3...
With the different mails, I have now a small list of people involved by JC. I don't know yet how we can organise ourself (maybe a dedicated mailing list ?)
2. To all WO users, not only JC, shall we make this effort a part of
some big WO site? I must admit I am not sure what sort of consensus
was reached on centralizing resources. Or do we start another
standalone thing? If not, with whom should we coordinate this?
We discussed about that during last WWDC. One developper from Google told us that it's not easy for a newbie to begin with WO because there is not a single place where you can find everithing to begin. From my perspective (and not only mine), the good place is to put more information in the wiki book (
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:WebObjects).
That's the reason why David LeBer has initiated a "WO get started" web site with links to different websites like the wiki book.
Some of us could be surprised by this discussion about JC. I agree with Chuck that it's not a good idea to begin a new project with JC but the projects, I know, are very big so the lack of support in a "maintenance mode" is a big problem. And maybe we could create a dynamic to invert the processus (requires a lots of works ;-)) if we are able to show how we can use effectively JC.