Re:frothkit - Objective-C Web Application Framework
by bonaldi on Monday December 03, 2012 @07:54AM
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It hasn't kept it for itself, it is still submitting patches and releasing new versions. The toolchain is no longer supported, but Apple also provides patches to the open-source toolchain.
Lots, lots more at http://www.wocommunity.org/page/default but as others have said -- this is essentially a (very nice) Java framework with some Eclipse tool support.
What I really miss is the Objective-C framework, with EOF, and native Mac tools, bindings etc.
Re:frothkit - Objective-C Web Application Framework
by mpweiher on Sunday December 02, 2012 @01:16PM
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Well, the other issues with WebObjects is that at this point it is no longer Objective-C, but Java...
Re:frothkit - Objective-C Web Application Framework
by macrael on Sunday December 02, 2012 @01:40PM
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What are some examples of things that WebObjects did right? Are there still published docs for it?
Re:frothkit - Objective-C Web Application Framework
by yoda_sl on Sunday December 02, 2012 @02:30PM
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You can still find many documentation online, a quick search on Google show a lot of results.
There is a community of developer too with some docs/tutorial. Here is an overview:
http://wiki.wocommunity.org/display/documentation/Overview-W...
Sadly Apple stopped the development of that web solutions years ago and kept it for itself... I heard from various folks at Apple that there are still a few engineers improving it and it is being used a lot for iTunes. WebObjects got some bad reputation from many people that have no clue on how it works and citing that WebObjects can't even support database update and this why the Apple Online Store is often offline when Apple release a new product. This is total BS of course, since take the iTunes AppStore which serve the content for all stores: music, apps, books, movies, etc... And you barely see that iTunes Store is offline.
WebObjects was a great technology but Apple decided to keep it for itself.