{"id":27,"date":"2004-08-12T12:05:27","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T11:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2004-08-12T12:05:27","modified_gmt":"2004-08-12T11:05:27","slug":"looking-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Looking Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One problem with being a long term WebObjects developer is that I get extremely jaded when viewing other technologies.<!-- more --> WebObjects isn&#8217;t perfect, there&#8217;s lots of room for improvement, but for a very early (&#8217;95\/&#8217;96) web application server, it is remarkably mature. It has a persistence layer, application server and template engine, as well as a set of enabling frameworks and IDE. I had to discover those terms before even starting to look around. Names that are dropped on the WebObjects mailing lists include Eclipse, Tomcat, TopDeck, Cayenne, Struts, Tapestry. I have also read about Hibernate and Spring. A number of these are parts of the Apache Jakarta project. It isn&#8217;t clear to me that there is actually a strong preference for any particular combination, although Eclipse as the IDE seems to win hands down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One problem with being a long term WebObjects developer is that I get extremely jaded when viewing other technologies. WebObjects isn&#8217;t perfect, there&#8217;s lots of room for improvement, but for a very early (&#8217;95\/&#8217;96) web application server, it is remarkably mature. It has a persistence layer, application server and template engine, as well as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[18,38],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-for-apples","tag-eclipse","tag-webobjects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}