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by aaronbrethorst 5861 days ago
WebObjects is/was NeXT's web application development framework. Think of it as being like the iPhone SDK for the Web (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebObjects).

Interestingly, back in the 90s WebObjects was programmed using Objective C. In 2000, Apple (post-NeXT acquisition) overhauled WO to use Java. This was around the same time that the Cocoa/Java bridge was released for building native Cocoa apps in Java.

WebObjects seems to be on life support inside Apple today. They haven't released a new version in about 20 months, and there's not much sign they'll update it any time soon.