Yes well I think there is still an Amiga community so the community bit is sort of as important as a bake sale.
However, wikipedia cites that it is used in iTunes and the apple store. These are not bad projects to have on your resume. It is sort of a shock because NeXT was selling WebObjects for between $20-50K when I was working with it. On Aug 9, 2011, at 5:26 PM, David Avendasora wrote: > > On Aug 9, 2011, at 9:06 PM, Michael Gentry wrote: > >> We were all sad to see WO (and EOF) >> wither and die, but at least T5+Cayenne seems to work rather well >> together. > > The news of WO's death are greatly exaggerated. There's still a thriving, > active developer community (wocommunity.org), the WebObjects binaries are > still available from Apple (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL688) and there's a > yearly developer's conference (http://www.wowodc.com/) - next year's is > planned for June 29th-July 1st in Montreal and there are plans for a WO > Boot-Camp for new developers in the days just prior. > > Apple itself has stopped formally releasing new versions to the public, but > they participate in the community by contributing improvements and even > entire frameworks to Project Wonder https://github.com/projectwonder/wonder, > which is where all new development is at externally. Wonder is quite active > with almost daily commits. > > Just some of the most recent improvements include: > - ERRest - a framework that provides easy-to-implement REST services in json, > xml, .plist, binary .plist, etc. > - ERModernD2W - a CSS/AJAX-based DirectToWeb framework that allows you to > create great looking web sites incredibly quickly by removing much of the UI > programming > - ERSolr framework (in beta: > https://github.com/tbritt/wonder/tree/master/Frameworks/EOAdaptors/JavaSolrAdaptor) > that makes Solr just another data source (EOAdaptor) with arbitrarily > complex queries using standard EOQualifiers. > - WOUnit framework http://hprange.github.com/wounit/ for simplifying unit > testing with EOF > > The development tools are now all Eclipse-based using the WOLips plugin > https://github.com/wolips/wolips, which is a much better java development > environment than Xcode ever was (shudder). > > The biggest problem is that the current state of documentation is horrible. > It's a mix of old Apple documentation (which is completely obsolete for the > developer tools) and community-created documentation which may or may not > reflect the current state of how to do things. The developer list is quite > active though with lots of people with 5-10 years of WO/EOF experience. > > David Avendasora
