Apple silently killed WebObjects and abandoned it's users roughly a decade ago (in a somewhat less-than-honest manner (Floop-de-diddity-doo You, Apple)).
But the community marches on. I’m constantly impressed by how this community survives and keeps what's essentially a dead product the best IDE/web-framework combination available. But at the same time, it’s kind of triste. We’ll never get new users. No one will use a dead framework. I hesitate to recommend it myself. We really need a future destination. I’ve found a future for my data in Cayenne (I’ve converted most of my WO/EOF projects to use Cayenne instead of EOF and it’s awesome) but I haven’t found any web frameworks that can even begin to compare to WO. And I’ve looked hard. - hugi > On 2. okt. 2015, at 21:01, Alan Ward <aw...@apple.com> wrote: > > I think Apple has abandoned WebObjects outside of Apple but not inside. Just > my personal opinion > > Alan > > > On Oct 2, 2015, at 12:47 PM, Paul Yu <p...@mac.com <mailto:p...@mac.com>> > wrote: > >> I was reading this Wikipedia article. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware> >> >> Would the list agree that WebObjects is now abandonware? >> >> "Definitions of "abandoned" vary, but in general it is like any item that is >> abandoned - it is ignored by the owner, and as such product support and >> possibly copyright enforcement are also "abandoned". It can refer to a >> product that is no longer available for legal purchase, over the age where >> the product creator feels an obligation to continue to support it, or where >> operating systems <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_systems> or >> hardware <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_hardware>platforms have >> evolved to such a degree that the creator feels continued support cannot be >> financially justified." >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com >> <mailto:Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com>) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/award%40apple.com >> <https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/award%40apple.com> >> >> This email sent to aw...@apple.com >> <mailto:aw...@apple.com>_______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/hugi%40karlmenn.is > > This email sent to h...@karlmenn.is
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