Re: WO 5.3 Deployment OS X only concerns

On Jun 14, 2005, at 6:09 AM, Susanne Schneider wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> just to put in a few comments from a very small company: we have  
> just one applicationset, developing only on windows and deploying  
> on linux and (for one customer only) on window-server. Developing  
> on Windows is no problem by using Eclipse, WOBuilder is a bit  
> tricky but I get customed to it.
>
> Our allready difficult argumentation why we use WebObjects at all  
> will become simply senseless if Apple will go on in this direction:  
> customizing WO to OSx-specific features will make it useless for us.

I personally don't think that you will see WO customized for OSX (or  
at least, that the main WO functionality will be customized).  It is  
possible that add-on modules, that do not exist already, could be  
added.  There is nothing in OS X that is java-oriented and there is  
little or nothing to gain by doing so for Apple.  Again, if they add  
in new functionality that is OS X specific, that may happen, and  
would not be that b ad since you just don't use the new functionality  
(say a Spotlight component module).  Apple has a lot of benefit from  
sticking to a J2SE/J2EE target.

Chad

>
> Well, I know: one little customer more or less does not count for  
> such a "big" company :-/
>
> Regards,
> Susanne
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