On Wed Aug 10 11:35:03 2011, Joe Baldwin wrote:
The last time I worked on a WO project was in 1999. At that time there was a Java library. However, it was a thin layer on top of Obj-C. The Webobjects application server I believe is (or was) a native app, that I think was Obj-C. My info is old, but I think it would be difficult to transfer all those Obj-C classes to java but maybe they did it.
They did. WO was completely ported to Java without any bits of Objective C left in there. However it was a long time before they adopted many Java conventions like Collections, so it still retained vestigaes of the Objective C way of doing things for many years.
When Apple dropped the Java-Cocoa bridge some years ago, the entire developer toolset was also dropped. And the community picked up those tools and rewrote them in pure Java (as Eclipse plugins). I think that was the last of the Objective-C purged from the WO community.
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