Re: Is WebObjects moving away from Windows development platform?

On 20 Jun 2006, at 10:06, Cheong Hee (QSS) wrote:

> Deployment is not an issue.  Development is.  The big blow comes  
> from limiting those using Windows as single platform for all sort  
> of works and development.  It is not the choice we have, sometime,  
> to use Windows as the single platform for development and works.   
> Without Windows development support, WO will not be easily and  
> conveniently promoted to Windows users.  This is due to the user  
> now has to get OSX before get to know WO.  In real life, this is  
> tough.  Apple will then shrinking WO community indirectly.  Like my  
> case recently successfully converting a technology guy with  
> background of Broadvision, Websphere and Weblogic, it will not  
> happen then.   Just a note from a Windows WO developer.  Other may  
> think otherwise.

Apple have been not maintaining WO development tools on Windows from  
5.0 onwards.  This is several years ago, so you can't have been  
unaware of this.  The community has developed support for Eclipse,  
which many will claim is a better development environment for Java  
than Xcode.  So if you want to develop for WO on Windows, be my guest.

As for the rest of your comments, you need to get over it.  Learning  
MacOS X is exactly no obstacle to any competent developer; I run WO  
training classes regularly, and even for Windows developers, picking  
up enough to develop for WO takes no time out of the class at all  
(literally).  Most developers are delighted to have a reason to use  
MacOS X.  If you are dealing with anyone who uses MacOS X or  
WebObjects as an excuse to avoid the environment, then they are not a  
competent deveeloper.

Paul