Brendan,
If you haven't seen my posts on this same topic in the past, they are in
the archives. So I won't start with "I love WebObjects..." part this time,
and go straight to the "...but" part ;-)
In the argument "WO vs. the Rest of the World", WebObjects is still
winning on its technical merits (though this is almost not noticeable now
compared to say 1999). But when you deal with real-world situations, there
are other factors that count. One of them is perceptions and prevailing
mindset of the people you work with (be it your clients, investors,
supervisors or employees).
So while one can argue that NSArray is superior to java.util.Collection
and friends, NSArray still remains one of those things that scare the hell
out of an average Java developer (and maybe not so average too). And there
are other things too...
And I am not even going to start on the Apple's refusal to market/sell
WebObjects as an enterprise Java solution directly competing with
weblogics and jbosses of this world. This alone made a dozen or so
companies that I know to switch away from WO completely.
On the other hand with Cayenne I rarely (if ever) see any of these
concerns. So to me it has always been a pragmatic solution to Java
persistence problems instead of an uphill battle for a technology
religion.
Just my $ .02
Andrus
> Hi,
>
>> And I wouldn't say we're abandoning WebObjects--we're just trying to
>> move toward tools that allow folks without WebObjects expertise to
>> help with the workload! Cayenne is a step in that direction.
>
> So what's the difference? Don't you need to then have people who know
> Cayenne? I'm sure there's more WO developers than Cayenne developers out
> there. Correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Thanks,
> Brendan Duddridge
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