WebObjects Update 5.4.1 for Mac OS X 10.5

WebObjects, Apple's little discussed web application framework, has been updated for Leopard. That's right, Apple still makes WebObjects and it would seem they even have an engineer or two actively working on it. The update clocks in at 153 MB and includes many bug fixes which are always welcome.

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WebObjects, Apple's little discussed web application framework, has been updated for Leopard. That's right, Apple still makes WebObjects...

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Simon Arch

Is there any reason someone who isn't involved in coding might want this? I'm tempted to install it just to have the latest/greatest/whateverest, but if there's no point then I'll not bother with it.

February 12 2008 at 1:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Pierre Bernard

WebObjects is alive and well. Don't get it why people think otherwise.

- Runs the Apple Store
- Runs the iTunes music store
- Runs .Mac
- Runs many other Apple sites
- Free for anyone to use. Just as Xcode, Cocoa, ...

Pierre Bernard
Houdah Software s.Ã r.l.

February 11 2008 at 11:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

superpixel

Awww, that's so cute! (pats WO on the head)

I really did like WO back in the day. Remember when it ran Dell's website? Good times.

February 11 2008 at 8:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Will

I'm still confused about the licensing of WebObjects. Who can use it, and where.

February 11 2008 at 8:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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termini

WebObjects comes with Developer tools - free. Use Eclipse for development, however. Deployment comes with Server version of OS X, inclusive. You can use the frameworks to deploy on other *nix operating systems, but that is not supported by Apple (we do it, and lots of others, too).

You can also build as WAR and deploy on WebSphere, Tomcat, etc. -- anything J2EE and the current 1.5 JVM.

White paper on Linux at our site, http://www.bluedog.net

February 18 2008 at 10:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply