On Jul 20, 2007, at 4:18 PM, Markus wrote:
Can anyone suggest what docs I should read, initially, to get a handle on this web application
_Getting Started With WebObjects_ (<http://developer.apple.com/ documentation/LegacyTechnologies/WebObjects/WebObjects_4.5/System/ Documentation/Developer/WebObjects/GettingStarted/ GettingStartedTOC.html>) was written for the version of WebObjects that you seem to be stuck with.
I'd like to re-claim administrative and programmatic control, as it is simply been hacked on here and there. BTW, Is there a "main crank" to turn somewhere in WebObjects (i.e. to produce a new build with new binaries)?
WebObjects of that era were build using Project Builder which merely used the Makefile in the source. However, if you don't have the correct development environment with the appropriate libraries, you won't be able to rebuild the app.
If I slurp it all into a XCode (or Eclipse) project, any tips on what to configure where? (and how?)
You will fail without the appropriate WebObjects Developer version installed.
I'm guessing ObjC is not ported to C2D yet,
Not true. Most new Mac OS X desktop apps are written in ObjC which is compiled by gcc that Apple has enhanced to build ObjC and mixed ObjC-C++ source. But the last ObjC version of WebObjects was released in 2002 with subsequent versions being Java only.
which means I need to use a Motorola-based workstation.
with a very old version of Mac OS X running on it (maybe no later than 10.1).
Are most ObjC WOApps being ported to Java, or not necessarily?
If you want to continue maintaining an ObjC WO app, it needs to be ported to Java. WebObjects 5.2 seems to be the last version that included tools to assist with ObjC -> Java porting. If the app isn't too complex, you'd probably be better off starting from scratch with WebObjects 5.3 which is included at no cost with the OS X Developer tools.
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