Re: Open source WO - offer

On 25/08/2006, at 3:06 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote:

> I (as an individual, not a company) will be willing to help porting  
> EOEditingContext to work on top of Cayenne stack, not full time  
> though. And of course I can help with various admin tasks.
>
> Anybody else?

These are fairly amazing offers to the community. We are a comparably  
small company (three WO programmers, of whom two are now working full  
time in Cayenne rather than EOF) and very stretched just completing  
our paid work, so I have little to offer in manpower. However we love  
what Cayenne has been able to offer us so far:

* Apple refused to license EOF to us several years ago (their answer  
was: just go buy OSX for each of your deployments). Wanted to pay  
them money. They didn't want our money. So we looked for alternatives  
and found Cayenne.

* Sure EOF is now free (I think we can probably redistribute it, but  
I've never been able to find that out for sure), but the three-tier  
parts of it are poorly documented. Cayenne is working well for us in  
that environment.

* We were able to get new features we needed added to Cayenne. That  
would be very unlikely to happen with WO.


If possible, we would love to support a solid open source project  
which gives us options to move beyond WebObjects. For us, complete  
compatibility with the EOF/WO APIs is less important since we could  
re-implement some code when the time came. To us, the more crucial  
aspect of WO is the package of tools which includes wotaskd,  
javamonitor, mod_webobjects, WO and EOF. As far as I've seen Cayenne  
+ Tapestry + Jetty/Tomcat isn't that neat package. Each does its job  
well, but nothing is well integrated yet.

The Apache project already has most of the tools needed, but some  
form of integration project would be most welcome.

Ari Maniatis




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