From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2006-09-12T04:06:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Real World Scalability and Ruby - Top 20

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On 9/10/06, Paul Lynch <paul@plsys.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> On 10 Sep 2006, at 22:15, Robert Dober wrote:
>
> > On 9/10/06, Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 05:08:06AM +0900, Robert Dober wrote:
> >> > On 9/10/06, Tim Smith <reply_in_group@mouse-potato.com> 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
>
> Just found it - my Linux Mag-, yep it is quite old (June 2004) but it is
talking about NGObjWeb and there is GNUstepWeb (sorry for having been
inprecise), but all references seem quite old (<=3D 2004) so there probably=
 is
no Objective-C implementation of WebObjects anymore. at least none useful.
SKYRIX (who was developpong NGObjWeb) seems to be more concentrated on
propriatary SW now.
What a pitty, sorry for the OT noise. (Well the whole thread is anyway ;)

Cheers
Robert


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