My situation is this: MacOS X 10.6.7 Xcode 3.2.6 MacPro dual 2.66Ghz "Nehalem"
quads, developing on Mac since 1984.
But I've never had to do anything in WO, although I looked into it a few years
ago out of curiosity.
I'm now being asked to investigate some issues for a major organisation that is
having issues with an existing WO app. (see more below).
Is there a website similar to CocoaDev or CocoaBuilder or the like where I can
easily search through the list archives versus bothering this list? Some of the
questions I am seeking asnwers to (after doing some homework by reading and
Googling) are these:
(1) WO is an application server now ported from Obj-C to Java and made to run
on the server version of MacOS X. Correct?
(2) The development tools are no longer Xcode based but are Eclipse based.
Correct?
So the Leopard Xcode WO SDK is of no use for development. Correct?
(3) The client presently has a PPC Tiger server with WO connecting to a Sun
server running Oracle (don't yet know versions)
If they get new HW how can they upgrade to WO for Snow Leopard server? Or
is that possible?
(4) It's my understanding that WO is now free for the asking/downloading. Is
that true? Where? How?
(5) What about Lion? I am guessing that the server version of Lion will run WO?
Correct?
Because isn't it true that Apple uses it for their various online stores?
Correct?
(6) If (5) is true the implication seems to be that Apple is still
supporting/developing the framework in some fashion.
True the framework is fairly mature now (as is Cocoa with which I am more
than a little familiar).
But there may be bug fixes and enhancements as time goes by. Any statement
by Apple about this?
(7) Oracle now owns Sun hence Java and does not provide the JVM for the MacOS
platform.
This is left up to Apple and they do not appear to have a long term
commitment to Java. viz deprecation of the Java-Obj-C bridge.
So is the life of WO threatened over say the next 5-years because of this?
TIA for your wise advice and for being kind enough to point me to places other
than
<http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WO/Home>
respect....
Peter
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