Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-10 Thread Don Lindsay
Data extraction? isn't that brain surgery? Don On Oct 10, 2009, at 9:38 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: On Oct 10, 2009, at 11:58 AM, David Holt wrote: On 2009-10-10, at 10:53 AM, Chuck Hill wrote: On Oct 10, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Guido Neitzer wrote: On 9. Oct. 2009, at 22:30 , Stephane Guyot wro

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-10 Thread Chuck Hill
On Oct 10, 2009, at 11:58 AM, David Holt wrote: On 2009-10-10, at 10:53 AM, Chuck Hill wrote: On Oct 10, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Guido Neitzer wrote: On 9. Oct. 2009, at 22:30 , Stephane Guyot wrote: today I don't believe the challenge is on the server anymore. As long as you can't

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-10 Thread Tim Worman
I think we already fulfilled all requirements for international consideration today - we had multiple links to French sites that I didn't even bother to understand. :-) Tim UCLA GSE&IS On Oct 10, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Miguel Arroz wrote: > Hi! > > Would you please use the metric system? Celsius

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-10 Thread Miguel Arroz
Hi! Would you please use the metric system? Celsius anyone? :P Yours Miguel Arroz On 2009/10/10, at 20:20, Chuck Hill wrote: On Oct 10, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Kieran Kelleher wrote: So many WO-devs on the list on a Saturday how about that?! Sad, isn't it? My excuse is that I live

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-10 Thread Kieran Kelleher
LOL :-) On Oct 10, 2009, at 3:20 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: On Oct 10, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Kieran Kelleher wrote: So many WO-devs on the list on a Saturday how about that?! Sad, isn't it? My excuse is that I live on the other coast and just dragged myself out of a warm, soft bed. Too

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-10 Thread Chuck Hill
On Oct 10, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Kieran Kelleher wrote: So many WO-devs on the list on a Saturday how about that?! Sad, isn't it? My excuse is that I live on the other coast and just dragged myself out of a warm, soft bed. Too cold outside for you in the frozen tundras of the north

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-10 Thread David Holt
On 2009-10-10, at 10:53 AM, Chuck Hill wrote: On Oct 10, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Guido Neitzer wrote: On 9. Oct. 2009, at 22:30 , Stephane Guyot wrote: today I don't believe the challenge is on the server anymore. As long as you can't pull the data out of the user's nose, I believe

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-10 Thread Kieran Kelleher
So many WO-devs on the list on a Saturday how about that?! Too cold outside for you in the frozen tundras of the north Chuck?! ;-) Well, since this is the time of year to dig Chuck about preparing for his very cold winter in the frozen tundras of the north, let me say that I am now goin

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-10 Thread Joe Little
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Joe Little wrote: > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Chuck Hill wrote: >> >> On Oct 10, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Guido Neitzer wrote: >> >>> On 9. Oct. 2009, at 22:30 , Stephane Guyot wrote: >>>        today I don't believe the challenge is on the server anymore.

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-10 Thread Joe Little
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Chuck Hill wrote: > > On Oct 10, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Guido Neitzer wrote: > >> On 9. Oct. 2009, at 22:30 , Stephane Guyot wrote: >> >>>        today I don't believe the challenge is on the server anymore. >> >> As long as you can't pull the data out of the user's n

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-10 Thread Chuck Hill
On Oct 10, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Guido Neitzer wrote: On 9. Oct. 2009, at 22:30 , Stephane Guyot wrote: today I don't believe the challenge is on the server anymore. As long as you can't pull the data out of the user's nose, And when you can, I think, I shall retire. -- Chuck Hill

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-10 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 9. Oct. 2009, at 22:30 , Stephane Guyot wrote: today I don't believe the challenge is on the server anymore. As long as you can't pull the data out of the user's nose, the challenge will always be on the server. The presentation layer might not be assembled on the server anymore

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-10 Thread Philippe Rabier
le.org/confluence/display/WO/WebObjects+with+Scala IMHO Scala is to Java what Objective-C was to C. My first impressions of Scala is akin to what i felt about Objective-C when i first discovered it 15 yrs ago... interesting... For most developers i suspect that a sore-point of usin

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-10 Thread Lachlan Deck
On 10/10/2009, at 4:30 PM, Stephane Guyot wrote: Interesting thread today I don't believe the challenge is on the server anymore. I don't agree. Certainly the presentation layer is a changing landscape nowadays but the server-side will continue to remain an important

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Stephane Guyot
is...Java. So maybe you need to look at Java-alternatives not WO- alternatives :) Yeah, Java is certainly one point of consideration for its lack of dynamism. Certainly utilising Groovy or Scala could help here. But honestly I believe the major sore point (if there be one amongst the surveys) i

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Stephane Guyot
C was to C. My first impressions of Scala is akin to what i felt about Objective-C when i first discovered it 15 yrs ago... interesting... For most developers i suspect that a sore-point of using WebObjects nowadays is...Java. So maybe you need to look at Java-alternatives not WO-alternatives :)

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 9. Oct. 2009, at 07:38 , Pascal Robert wrote: In fact, we should tell people that we don't use WO, we should tell people that we develop with Eclipse and open source frameworks (Wonder/LEWOStuff/Houdah/other). You're late to the game. I was telling some customers since eight years that

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Lachlan Deck
i felt about Objective- C when i first discovered it 15 yrs ago... interesting... For most developers i suspect that a sore-point of using WebObjects nowadays is...Java. So maybe you need to look at Java-alternatives not WO-alternatives :) Yeah, Java is certainly one point of consid

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Ravi Mendis
it 15 yrs ago... For most developers i suspect that a sore-point of using WebObjects nowadays is...Java. So maybe you need to look at Java-alternatives not WO-alternatives :) Thanks, Ravi ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignor

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Chuck Hill
On Oct 9, 2009, at 10:02 AM, David Holt wrote: Yeah, but we can't READ them :-) Please note: These ebooks are not compatible with Apple MacIntosh or Linux systems. There is always Old Skool: http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Gary-Taubes/dp/1400040787 Better science in that one too.

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread David Holt
Yeah, but we can't READ them :-) Please note: These ebooks are not compatible with Apple MacIntosh or Linux systems. On 9-Oct-09, at 9:51 AM, Chuck Hill wrote: On Oct 9, 2009, at 8:14 AM, Pascal Robert wrote: Le 09-10-09 à 11:09, Mike Schrag a écrit : If Apple decided to NEVER ship an

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Chuck Hill
On Oct 9, 2009, at 8:14 AM, Pascal Robert wrote: Le 09-10-09 à 11:09, Mike Schrag a écrit : If Apple decided to NEVER ship another WebObjects version, how would your life be different? The only thing that bugs me is that they might ship a new version of OS X with no Java JVM on it, or tha

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Miguel Arroz
Hi! On 2009/10/09, at 16:09, Mike Schrag wrote: Also, when Apophosis hits Earth in 2029 Can we have that happening earlier, please? Yours Miguel Arroz smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Do not post admin requests to th

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Andrus Adamchik
I am working on a set of rather complex apps serving a major entertainment site with tens of millions daily visitors. Feel free to email me if you have specific questions about this setup. I should mention here that Tapestry having a built-in dependency injection container is a big part of

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Luke Holton
All, Has anyone any experience/comments on a Tapestry / Cayenne combination? Regards, Luke Holton Tel: (602) 279-4600 ext 622 Fax: (602) 279-4768 Desert Sky Software: www.desertsky.com Specializing in the Development and Hosting of e-Business Applications. On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Joe Litt

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Kieran Kelleher
Then you should go to Nieue to herd goats for relaxation and a healthy diet of goats milk and berries. ;-) On Oct 9, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Pascal Robert wrote: Le 09-10-09 à 11:09, Mike Schrag a écrit : If Apple decided to NEVER ship another WebObjects version, how would your life be differe

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Joe Little
Yes, I find Grails or more specifically GORM to be the closest analogy. Very Rails inspired, but where it differs, it feels just like WO. I just hate JSP/GSP presentation layer, so GRAILS in the end doesn't float my boat. LiftWeb is painful to the eyes. Scala is great, LiftWeb just won't gain trac

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Pascal Robert
Le 09-10-09 à 11:09, Mike Schrag a écrit : If Apple decided to NEVER ship another WebObjects version, how would your life be different? The only thing that bugs me is that they might ship a new version of OS X with no Java JVM on it, or that 5.4 have serious bugs with Java 7. I guess we ca

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Mike Schrag
If Apple decided to NEVER ship another WebObjects version, how would your life be different? The only thing that bugs me is that they might ship a new version of OS X with no Java JVM on it, or that 5.4 have serious bugs with Java 7. I guess we can move development to a Linux or Window box if

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Kieran Kelleher
Pascal, I seriously doubt it's a possibility that OS X ships without JVM . try to keep the thread intelligent please;-):-P ... and even if Apple did not compile the JavaVM, er, I am sure it would be a short time before an installer is available . we would have to install it

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Pascal Robert
 People are acting like Apple treated us like a top-tier developer community and all of a sudden yanked the rug out from under us. For that, I must add that I think that a lot of people are expecting Apple to treat us like a top-tier developer community because of the years of when Apple/NeXT was s

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Pascal Robert
Le 09-10-09 à 10:32, Mike Schrag a écrit : Ok, all innovations from the last 5 years come from Wonder, so I don't care if WO is open sourced or not, because I know innovations and bug fixes will come from Wonder, not from Apple. In fact, it's almost easier to sell WO by talking of Wonder,

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Mike Schrag
Ok, all innovations from the last 5 years come from Wonder, so I don't care if WO is open sourced or not, because I know innovations and bug fixes will come from Wonder, not from Apple. In fact, it's almost easier to sell WO by talking of Wonder, because you can say "Ok, so the core framewo

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Pascal Robert
Le 09-10-09 à 09:28, Pascal Robert a écrit :Le 09-10-09 à 08:00, Q a écrit :On 09/10/2009, at 9:07 PM, Pascal Robert wrote:I'm wondering if we can just migrate and adapt Wonder on top of a project like GETobjects so that we can have a exit point, just in case...GETObjects, not likely, it's quite di

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Alexis Tual
Le 9 oct. 09 à 15:28, Pascal Robert a écrit : Le 09-10-09 à 08:00, Q a écrit : On 09/10/2009, at 9:07 PM, Pascal Robert wrote: I'm wondering if we can just migrate and adapt Wonder on top of a project like GETobjects so that we can have a exit point, just in case... GETObjects, not li

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Andrus Adamchik
I don't care for the XML databases per se, but the wider self declared NoSQL "movement", aside from the annoying hype that is so hard to escape, presents some interesting RDBMS alternatives, none requiring an ORM. E.g. a content repository API that is presumably great for CMS apps: http

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Pascal Robert
Le 09-10-09 à 08:00, Q a écrit : On 09/10/2009, at 9:07 PM, Pascal Robert wrote: I'm wondering if we can just migrate and adapt Wonder on top of a project like GETobjects so that we can have a exit point, just in case... GETObjects, not likely, it's quite different, not API compatible,

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Ramsey Lee Gurley
I say this with the utmost respect of the work put into the open source ORM frameworks out there, but if I were to look at tech outside of WO, it would probably be something other than a "me too" ORM framework. I can't say I've looked much, but I've yet to find anything outside of WO that

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Q
On 09/10/2009, at 9:07 PM, Pascal Robert wrote: I'm wondering if we can just migrate and adapt Wonder on top of a project like GETobjects so that we can have a exit point, just in case... GETObjects, not likely, it's quite different, not API compatible, and not as complete. You would be

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Pascal Robert
I'm wondering if we can just migrate and adapt Wonder on top of a project like GETobjects so that we can have a exit point, just in case... GETobjects needs some work, but has potential if you couldn't use WO. http://www.getobjects.org On 09/10/2009, at 9:04 AM, Daniel Mejia wrote: Hi al

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Q
GETobjects needs some work, but has potential if you couldn't use WO. http://www.getobjects.org On 09/10/2009, at 9:04 AM, Daniel Mejia wrote: Hi all, If you have to choose another framework for Web Development , different than WO, what could be your selection? We are looking for alternat

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-09 Thread Andrus Adamchik
On Oct 9, 2009, at 5:53 AM, Daniel Mejia wrote: Thank you for your information. In the ORM side we have in the list Hibernate, Cayenne and EclipseLink . For the presentation layer we are going to check Tapestry. Saludos, Daniel. Hi Daniel, As one of Cayenne authors, I should mention th

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-08 Thread Daniel Mejia
Thank you for your information. In the ORM side we have in the list Hibernate, Cayenne and EclipseLink . For the presentation layer we are going to check Tapestry. Saludos, Daniel. On 08/10/2009, at 09:03 p.m., John Ours wrote: Cayenne is surely the closest ORM. I'd pick GWT or Tapestr

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-08 Thread Daniel Mejia
Chuck, First of all let me tell you that I have invested many years in WO, I have developed many systems with less bugs and much faster than with any other platform that I know. I´m very happy with the product and with the support that you and many other people provides, that is much bett

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-08 Thread Kieran Kelleher
Daniel, You may have to find 2 cooperating technologies, one for presentation (think wo appserver/WOComponents) and one for persistence (think EOF). I have never used these, but: - Apache Cayenne was inspired by EOF, and founded by Andrus Adamchik (who is the guy behind objectstyle.org an

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-08 Thread John Ours
Cayenne is surely the closest ORM. I'd pick GWT or Tapestry for the presentation depending on the type of application it is. GWT and Cayenne don't mix that well because of the JS serialization but it does work. John On Oct 8, 2009, at 7:04 PM, Daniel Mejia wrote: Hi all, If you have

Re: WO alternatives

2009-10-08 Thread Chuck Hill
On Oct 8, 2009, at 4:04 PM, Daniel Mejia wrote: Hi all, If you have to choose another framework for Web Development , different than WO, what could be your selection? We are looking for alternatives and I would like to know if somebody knows something close to WO... If we knew somethi

WO alternatives

2009-10-08 Thread Daniel Mejia
Hi all, If you have to choose another framework for Web Development , different than WO, what could be your selection? We are looking for alternatives and I would like to know if somebody knows something close to WO... Regards, Daniel. ___