On Aug 10, 2011, at 9:54 AM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > 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.
The Eclipse/WOLips tool set existed for a couple years prior to the Apple-supplied tools being deprecated. The "power users" used Eclipse, the "drag-and-droppers" (like me) found it too complicated. After Apple deprecated the bridge and therefor their tool set, a lot of time and effort (much of it sponsored directly by Apple) was put into the WOLips tool set and it became much more approachable and now I can't imagine ever going back to Xcode for Java development! The only Objective-C tool left is RuleModeler.app that is used to make editing DirectToWeb and DirectToJavaClient rule files easier, but that was developed by the community, not by Apple. At least not directly. Dave
