Re: Open source WO - offer

> "JOPE is an implementation of the SOPE server and concepts in Java  
> 1.5. It provides (yet another) templating engine modelled after the  
> WebObjects one, as well as database access libraries and other  
> features. JOPE applications can be deployed into a Servlet  
> container or run standalone using the Jetty HTTP server."

This is kind of the way I wanted to handle the replacement of  
WOAdapter - just embed Jetty - cool!

> Anyway, if you want to start something from scratch, feel free to  
> copy code from JOPE, it should contain quite a few things you can  
> copy as-is ;-)

Not sure if LGPL would allow to recast the entire thing into BSD  
licensed code...

Andrus


On Aug 25, 2006, at 5:13 AM, Helge Hess wrote:
> On Aug 25, 2006, at 02:45, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Maybe people find this useful:
>
>   http://mail.opengroupware.org/pipermail/developer/2006-August/ 
> 002689.html
>   http://freshmeat.net/projects/jope/
>
> though probably not ;-) Its still in early stages and probably will  
> never really replace WO (eg D2JC). However it has quite a few nice  
> additions as well (though it doesn't match the ObjC variant, SOPE,  
> yet). We just did it because some clients insisted on having apps  
> written in Java ...
>
> We don't care that much about WO compatibility anymore, we rather  
> concentrate on adding new approaches while trying to preserve a few  
> concepts which we think where great about WO (eg templates doing  
> request processing, not just rendering or subcomponent/element  
> handling ...).
>
> Personally I would probably drop own efforts when WO would become  
> available as OpenSource though it needs to have significant  
> extensions to be viable for current web development.
> Anyway, if you want to start something from scratch, feel free to  
> copy code from JOPE, it should contain quite a few things you can  
> copy as-is ;-)
>
> Greets,
>   Helge
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