Fwd: Would You Use WOs On A New Project
Fwd: Would You Use WOs On A New Project
- Subject: Fwd: Would You Use WOs On A New Project
- From: Nolan Whitaker <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:26:54 -0400
All,
I suppose that I wasn't entirely clear with my question. I know that
web objects is written in Java, implementing a number of the Cocoa
classes. My question is why use a product like WOs when classes that
perform an equivalent function generally exist in the current Java
spec.
What can I do with the WebOjects classes that I can't do with generic
Java? And if there is essentially little or no additional
funcationality, why add the extra layer of code? (I'm under the
impression that there are few, if any, WO classes that can't be mapped
to one or more Java classes in combination that perform the same
function.)
Thanks,
Nolan
On Apr 15, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Ken Anderson wrote:
Nolan,
The beauty of WebObjects being implemented 100% in Java is you don't
have to make that choice. You can leverage the power of WebObjects
and EOF, and still use any other Java libraries you want.
Ken
On Apr 15, 2008, at 3:25 PM, Nolan Whitaker wrote:
Hello.
First off, let me say that I absolutely love what Apple has done with
Cocoa.
(I owned a NeXTStation '040 back in the mid 1990s and now wish I had
done more software development with it instead of trading it for a
Sun Sparc 5,
but hindsight is 20/20. )
I'm in the process of working up an idea for a client/server
application that will
have a rich front end written in Cocoa as well as a web-based front
end.
Most, if not all, of the server-based portion of the application will
be
written in Java.
When Web Objects first appeared, the Java API was rather sparse.
There wasn't support for a number of classes that exist now, and
using WOs
made a lot sense. Given that I am already familiar with Cocoa
classes,
using WOs still makes some sense given that it implements many of the
Cocoa
classes that I am familiar using and makes database access a little
easier.
My question is this, given the rich API that Java offers today, why
should I use
Web Objects on a new project?
Thanks in advance,
Nolan Whitaker
http://www.NolanWhitaker.com
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