From: Paul Lynch Date: 2006-09-11T06:25:36+09:00 Subject: Re: Real World Scalability and Ruby - Top 20 On 10 Sep 2006, at 22:15, Robert Dober wrote: > On 9/10/06, Logan Capaldo wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 05:08:06AM +0900, Robert Dober wrote: >> > On 9/10/06, Tim Smith wrote: >> [snip the actual conversation] >> > > >> > >Worse, it misses sites like the iTunes Music Store completely, >> which is >> > >a huge enterprise application. iTMS is a Webobjects >> application, so is >> > >running on J2EE. >> > >> > You mean Objective-C for sure >> >> Nope, WebObjects was long ago converted to Java. >> Check out the site: http://www.apple.com/webobjects/ > > I had the very faint hope that a free version of Webobjects was > used, > these are still in Objective-C, sorry if I wasted your time, I > tried to pay > you back with the URIs for the two Objective-C versions, but just > cannot get > my hands on my last Linux-Mag France. > One obviously is GNU-Step, but the other...., sorry :( iTMS/AppleStore/.Mac was written in WebObjects, right - and originally in the Objective C version. WebObjects converted to Java (not J2EE) years ago, although some users continue to run the ObjC version of WebObjects, because of philosophical objections to Java (nothing new there). I believe, but can't confirm, that Apple's internal WebObjects apps were converted to the Java version of WebObjects. There is no 'free' version of ObjC WebObjects; GNUstep is not WebObjects. There are some OSS implementations based on ObjC, with and without GNUstep, but nothing that is feature complete and compatible. The current version of WebObjects (Java) is 'free', as it comes with XCode, but is not Open Source. Paul