We hope we can get you on board :-) To answer your question :
1) The community is doing much better than in the past. We have
WOWODC, our annual WO conference, the WO Community Web site, really
good open source frameworks and more people in the mailing lists.
2) Apple dropped the old dev tools in part because internally, most of
their devs were using WOLips! And even if people might miss a couple
of things (mostly WO Builder), WOLips is getting better and better
every day and is far ahead than Xcode for a lot of stuff. Apple had
said in the past that WOLips is the tool for the future.
3) Apple has released builds of future versions of WO on ADC, and they
even contributed a Maven plugin for WOLips to get access to those
builds. And the WO team at Apple is really active. Apple use WO a lot
internally, not just for the iTunes Store.
It's not like it was in before 2002, but it's far better than it was
2-3 years ago.
I'm trying to convince our development staff to drop our
proprietary dev stack and adopt WebObjects. I like WO a good deal,
and things like Project WOnder help too. The problem I have is that
one of the developers has pointed out that Apple has deprecated the
development tools. You can't write code without tools. So it's
clear that Apple is either going to release a new tool set (even if
that is WOLips), or completely abandon the platform.
With Apple not divulging such info, I was wondering if anyone might
have any additional info on the mater: a private response would be
fine. It really comes down to no large company would ever adopt
something without knowing the vendor is going to continue to support
it (FUD, as invented by IBM!).
Any guidance would be appreciated.
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