Re: WebObjects-talk Digest, Vol 16, Issue 6

On Jun 8, 2005, at 2:19 PM, Ron Wagner wrote:


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>>   We're still on 4.5, we've just been steadily patching it for each
>> new release of OSX.
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>>   I just realized that a side effect of the OSX on Intel announcement
>> is that we'll have to either move to Java or GnuStepWeb.
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>>   Anyone else in the same boat?
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>>   Pierce
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> Not in the same boat, but wondering why you haven't updated since 4.5.
>

Our site: http://www.marketocracy.com  we're sort of the Olympics for  
Stock Market Wizards.

   WebObjects suffers from a common blind spot among solution  
providers: They see themselves as the only thing that matters.

   The reality is that for our site, the WebObjects application is  
just the tip of the iceberg, everything else is under the water. I'd  
guess that the main application is only about 5% of the total code  
base. For the other 95% of the code base, Java doesn't really make  
that much sense.

   Given the Java JVM's insistence on knowing how much memory to  
allocate up front, I'm not sure it makes any sense for the remaining  
5% either.

   In other words, we have multiple non-WO servers that work in the  
background, nightly command line processes, etc. that all need a  
common object model. Now perhaps we could have coded them in Java  
originally, but we didn't, and at this point, rewriting all that  
stuff would be a nightmare.

   Also there's very little in WO 5.x that makes it worth it to us to  
migrate.

   So:

      Con: Lots of headaches
      Pro: ??

  Pierce