Re: Advice please about WO
Re: Advice please about WO
- Subject: Re: Advice please about WO
- From: Pascal Robert <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 18:37:26 -0400
Le 2011-06-12 à 17:18, P Teeson a écrit :
> My situation is this: MacOS X 10.6.7 Xcode 3.2.6 MacPro dual 2.66Ghz "Nehalem" quads, developing on Mac since 1984.
>
> But I've never had to do anything in WO, although I looked into it a few years ago out of curiosity.
> I'm now being asked to investigate some issues for a major organisation that is having issues with an existing WO app. (see more below).
>
> Is there a website similar to CocoaDev or CocoaBuilder or the like where I can easily search through the list archives versus bothering this list? Some of the questions I am seeking asnwers to (after doing some homework by reading and Googling) are these:
>
> (1) WO is an application server now ported from Obj-C to Java and made to run on the server version of MacOS X. Correct?
>
> (2) The development tools are no longer Xcode based but are Eclipse based. Correct?
> So the Leopard Xcode WO SDK is of no use for development. Correct?
>
> (3) The client presently has a PPC Tiger server with WO connecting to a Sun server running Oracle (don't yet know versions)
> If they get new HW how can they upgrade to WO for Snow Leopard server? Or is that possible?
>
> (4) It's my understanding that WO is now free for the asking/downloading. Is that true? Where? How?
>
> (5) What about Lion? I am guessing that the server version of Lion will run WO? Correct?
> Because isn't it true that Apple uses it for their various online stores? Correct?
>
> (6) If (5) is true the implication seems to be that Apple is still supporting/developing the framework in some fashion.
> True the framework is fairly mature now (as is Cocoa with which I am more than a little familiar).
> But there may be bug fixes and enhancements as time goes by. Any statement by Apple about this?
The last statement from Apple was in August 2009 when they said that WO support was removed from Snow Leopard. But like Paul said, everything is done in Project Wonder now. In the last two years, we had two major contributions in Wonder: ERRest and ERModernLook.
FYI, 88% of organizations who answered the community surveys said they will continue to use WebObjects. We will discuss all of this in detail in the Community Talk at WOWODC.
> (7) Oracle now owns Sun hence Java and does not provide the JVM for the MacOS platform.
> This is left up to Apple and they do not appear to have a long term commitment to Java. viz deprecation of the Java-Obj-C bridge.
> So is the life of WO threatened over say the next 5-years because of this?
Oracle does not provide a JVM for OS X right now, but they will starting with Java 7:
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/11/12openjdk.html
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