I am evaluating platforms for an upcoming project.
As a developer with roots in Smalltalk and C, I am leaning to WebObjects
because it appears to be a next generation set of tools, but, of course,
I have to deal with the client who knows something about AppServers,
Enterprise Java Beans, etc. So I have a few questions that I hope
someone can help me with.
I assume EJBs are not supported on WO. Can anyone describe how their
functionality is handled in WO? Or point me to some reading that I can
do.
I have seen no mention whatsoever of using OODBMSs with WO. Does
anybody do it? If so, which, how? Is it as straightforward as I think
it would be?
I am inclined to program in ObjC for the back-end. Is this a bad idea?
Will Apple be moving strongly in the Java direction at the expense of
ObjC? How stable is Java vs. ObjC? Is there any functionality missing
in the Java implmentation? Performance issues?
Are there XML classes available?
Can anyone recommend reading that I might obtain. I read the IDC paper,
much of the archive of this list and all the Internet marketing that I
could find.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Joseph Lubin
