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by dietrichepp 4719 days ago
WebObjects is a web application framework. It's OLD old. It's about ten years older than Ruby on Rails, putting it on par with PHP and Ruby itself. NeXT made it and Apple decided to make it free. It was Objective-C and is now Java.
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coldcode 4719 days ago
I used WO in the late nineties and it was way ahead of its time. Enterprise Objects (which morphed into Core Data) was an amazing tool for working with databases. Today it's pretty obsolete and it's not easy to find people.
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Tloewald 4719 days ago
Web Objects was amazing for its time. It actually utilized server-side image maps to make web pages responsive before JavaScript took off.
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glhaynes 4719 days ago
It's OLD old.

Steve Jobs used to hawk it on 486s while wearing ripped jeans. http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/World/Steve%20Jobs...

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ams6110 4719 days ago
It's not any older than Interface Builder and other stuff in the Mac OS dev toolkit, as all of that came from NeXT. I would guess though that it has not been maintained or updated.
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