Happy tenth birthday, WebObjects

Come on - webojects is 10 years old, and hasn't received a major update in 5 years. I doubt a single notable website has adopted it since then at least. EOF was cool, but all in all more of a footnote than "best kept secret."

The Enterprise Objects Framework is an amazing object-relational mapping tool that was way ahead of its time - only now are open-source efforts like Hibernate beginning to catch up.

The best thing about WebObjects is that it's cheap, the worst thing about it is that it isn't free. Nobody uses it because if they have money they go buy WebLogic or WebSphere, and if they don't have money they use PHP or Ruby on Rails.

Back in the day it was really cool to be able to have a single product that let you build an MVC-style app server using a single, integrated development environment. Nowadays those platforms are everywhere, but EOF is still a real jewel.

Disney has used WebObjects for a long, long time now.

I would *never* use WebObjects as a programming language. First off, its not very progressive, and it has horrible accessibility ratings! For example, when I look at the Apple Store (or even an order status page) from my mobile phone, or even a non-CSS enabled browser, I get [image] instead of alt tags!

I'm not saying its horrid, because it isn't. But, if you're looking to please customers, use Ruby on Rails instead! :) That's what we use, and our clients have never been happier!

Ditto #1. I tried it out a few times, for me PHP and MySQL work fine for the web.

I could never figure out how to use that... :(