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| 07-04-08 / 23:38 : WebObjects : 12 years old, the future (cjed) |
 WebObjects is 12 years old. The first version of the Next Web solution shipped in march, 2006, just before Apple buyed the company (end of 1996). In a message from August, 2006, Apple announced the deprecation of its famous tools (EOModeler, EOModeler Plugin for XCode, WebObjects Builder, WebServices Assistant, RuleEditor, WOALauncher), and so pushed developers to switch to Eclipse+WOLips plugin. The message ended in a positive manner, stating that the WO was bright, and that the staff would be reallocated to prepare the future of WebObjects.For some no tool can actually offer the same productivity as WOBuilder, and the Eclipse WOLips plugin doesn't provide WYSIWYG yet. However it could bring that major feature later and still includes exclusive functionnalities (wod binding validation, auto-completion and templated suggestions, tracking of bugs at compile time and not only at runtime). Hopefully a WO conference is planned in June, 2008, just some days before Apple's WWDC2008. The main following themes will be dealed : Non-HTML apps and WebObjects (talk to Cocoa by JSON-RPC, and use Adobe Flex), Ajax, JavaClient and JBND (learn how to use JBND to bind your Java Swing app with WebObjects and client-side EOF). We expect Apple's answer about its Web solution orientations, as its staff is now only comprised of 4 engineers. Perhaps a consortium aimed at promoting and modernising WO would be great ? |
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