Hi,
I think a strong point in favour of WebObjects are Apples
Documentation and also the 5 books written on WebObjects.
Those books have saved my a lot of time.
Regards
Peter
On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 06:26 AM, Alice Oaks 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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