WO is a great tool, but if your goal is to create an open source product,
don't use WO. It is licensed by Apple and not free. The runtime license is
pretty reasonable for all it provides.
We use Eclipse with our WO product and it works great. We also use a lot of
open source code with no problem.
Good Luck
Dov Rosenberg
On 11/2/03 12:26 PM, "Alice Oaks" <aliceoak..otmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm evaluating technology choices for a database-backed web project. None
> of us has ever worked in Java before, so I'm slowly making my way through
> the alphabet soup, trying to understand all the pieces we will need and what
> they do. Yes, we're a bit nuts, but that's ok. I prefer to think of it as
> brave. :)
>
> I have tentatively narrowed our choices to WebObjects or
> Eclipse/Tapestry/Cayenne. I have read about both, but not to a level of
> detail that I would call informed yet. For example, I'm pretty sure that
> the WO API is more extensive, but I haven't actually compared to see if that
> is true.
>
> Since there is a huge amount of material to digest here, I'm starting to
> talk to people about this now, even though I don't quite know what I'm doing
> yet, because if there are compelling reasons to go one way or the other I
> can save myself a lot of time. I'm asking on this list (one of about 10
> I've been reading lately) because it seems like there is a good mix of
> people here who use both tools. If this is not an appropriate topic, then
> please just send me to the right place (politely, I hope :).
>
> My criteria are pretty simple: I'm looking for something that is relatively
> straightforward to use, is well thought of in Java circles, and has a
> future. I don't expect the tools we choose to make learning Java or J2EE
> any easier, but since we have a lot to learn I don't want the tools to make
> it harder, either. I'm also looking for something that's going to be
> acceptable to the average IT manager (aka PHB). It is less important to me
> that WO is not Open Source, but I would like the ability to pull in other
> people's code (JARs, I believe?) and integrate it with ours where
> appropriate (the end result of this will be Open Source).
>
> Thoughts, suggestions? Have I overlooked other tools I should investigate?
>
> thanks,
>
> Alice
>
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