There have been many mails on WO passing. First of all it didn't
until now, and it won't for some time (at least that is what I
think). But anyway. With the introduction of Webobject 5.4 and
Leopard we've seen two things:
1. Java isn't top priority anymore (look at Java 6 not being
there...).
2. Therefore also Webobjects can't be.
They didn't even manage to launch a new webobjects homepage
synchronized with the release of Leopard and in Server Features it
isn't leasted under the key technologie section. And to be honest,
the progress they made since 5.3 in my view is a little
dissapointing altough going in the right direction. They now mainly
rely on help from the superbe wonder community for tools and
anything. But in the end their pushing other technologies in place...
I don't believe this is the case. First of all, their release plan
with Java 6 basically matches their behavior with all previous
releases of Java and demonstrates to me that it's as important as it's
always been (whether that is high importance or not, who knows, but it
seems at least consistent). There's a huge amount of speculation
about what's going on, but I suspect the answer is "it's coming out
really soon, chill people." All these folks on the blogs who are so
worked up about Java 6, I'm curious what exactly the features are of 6
that they're really that upset about not having right now? It seems
to me Sun's pretty well lamed up the Java 6 release -- give me some
REAL features, Sun -- don't just bundle a damn database in your VM.
This is not by any means an excuse for Apple to delay releasing, I'd
love the latest and greatest also, but looking at the differences, I'm
not really all that upset.
Secondly while 5.3 in many ways is just catching up with what Wonder
and others have had for a while, I think it's forward momentum, and
that's a good thing for the platform. Wonder has had 7 (or so) years
of active development while WO has mostly stood still, so yeah, it's
going to take a while to figure out what makes sense to go into the
platform and for them to bring those features in. And while I've
disagreed with some of the specific 5.4 decisions, I think Pierre,
Daryl, and crew have good intentions for the platform and I know
they're actively working on making it better. Apple could have
decided to not put a single more man hour into WO development, but
instead they've made a fairly substantial turn in the past year or so
and are actually trying to offer new developments.
I do agree that the WO 5.3 webpage on Apple's site is pretty lame, but
it's also a technology in a weird place at the moment. Do they show
WOLips pictures there? Maybe, but I'm not sure there's much of a
precedent for that. Give it time to work itself out. And honestly, if
it doesn't, so be it. You're still using one of the best technologies
around, and Apple not doing a damn thing for almost a decade hasn't
really held you up thus far.
ms
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