Mr eel
WebObjects is Now Free (kinda)
Very quietly, Apple have now started offering their WebObjects web-app framework for free. Well, free with MacOS X Server anyhow. That’s pretty significant when you consider that previously it could cost thousands to licence.
Just a bit of background for anyone who’s never heard of WebObjects before. It’s a server side Java framework for running large scale dynamic websites. And lots of other fancy stuff apparently.
I haven’t known what to think of Java on the server-side. So far my exposure has been limited to following arguments in the Ruby vs. Java religous war — which is thankfully limited to only a few folk bickering, but which gets a bit nasty nonetheless. So I’ve never even thought to look at WebObjects. I might have to change that. Apparently WebObjects is a really cool framework and being Java based it scales really well. That’s something I’m concerned about since I am investigating a framework for web-apps and it the future it may need to support alot of users.
Since it’s Sunday, I’m gonna download the new developer tools and have a play. This means learning Java too, so I might not get to far, but what the hey. Here I go!
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