[proceedNeXT]

The Guys who deal with WebObjects development in our firm told me yesterday, that Apple will release WebObjects 5 for MacOS X tomorrow, and that Apple would drop Obj-C support for it.

What do you think about it?

[Angus_D]

Can't wait for the WWDC announcements later today... I guess WO5 would be an obvious one. They've been developing it for probably 1-2 years by now, at least.

I'm pretty sure that Apple has made it clear that WO 4.5.1 will be the last native WebObjects that will support Obj-C. I think I heard it has tools to help developers move their projects to Java for WO5, but I haven't got WO so I can't really say.

WO5 will be completely Java, and therefore portable. This is a good thing for Apple - WO5 will run on just about any enterprise system under the sun (Solaris, Linux and *BSD would be the obvious new ones). I'm not sure if being written entirely in Java will affect the speed of WO, but I certainly hope it won't

[nibs]

won't mac os x server come with web objects 5?

i wonder how it will be priced...

[nibs]

web objects 4.5 already runs on mac os x server, solaris, hp-ux, & nt.

[This message has been edited by nibs (edited 05-21-2001).]