Snow Leopard compatibility and the future of webobjects
Snow Leopard compatibility and the future of webobjects
- Subject: Snow Leopard compatibility and the future of webobjects
- From: Yung-Luen Lan <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:07:45 +0800
Hi,
*** WARNING: I wasn't able to be at WWDC or WOWODC this year so I'm
not sure the following is correct. ***
According to the website:
http://mac.topnewsdigest.com/uncategorized/conflicting-information-about-webobjects/
"Mac OS X 10.6 server no longer support WebObjects."
I'm not to talk about NDA-things here. Instead, I'm here to discuss
what the above statement mean to us.
Since Apple itself is still using WebObjects for MobileMe, iTunes
store, AppleStore website, RADAR, devforums and many other system,
it's difficult to totally replace all the webobjects app to other
technology at once.
However, I speculate that Apple will put less and less effort on
WebObjects year by year. Although WO 5.5/5.6 is coming, I personally
do not expect any other good news from Apple. First deprecates
wo-tools, then discontinue the support of WO in the next release of
their OS. Apple's attitute is obvious––I even talked to an Apple
employee at WWDC08 and he said, "You are using WebObjects? I thought
only europeans use that." Of course it's just kidding in a very
private conversation, but it more or less shows that not all Apple
employees are satisfying with WebObjects, and I guess their percentage
isn't low. It seems that this year we have nothing metioned on the
WWDC IT session page. No lab either.
Even Apple's current wo apps were not good testimonials for WO. Some
developers think that Apple's web apps are infamous as
20-century-style and feel frustrated when using them. (It's a long
story about how Apple Online Store screw its customer's names with
iPhone dev program) Well, it may not be the problem of the essence of
WO at all, but the lack of documentation/support is.
Maybe why WebObjects is still in Apple is because (1) Apple has no
other web technology, (2) Pierre try hard to defending and promoting
WO, and (3) both. I predict the future of WebObjects will be totally
running from community.
Could you share some thoughts with me? Thanks.
Regards,
yllan
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