WebObjects curiously absent from WWDC 2005 agenda

Apple overnight posted to its World Wide Developers Conference Web site information on nearly 90 conference sessions set to take place at the annual Macintosh developers conference this June. The event is slated to host over 140 conference sessions in total, but its unclear if the company will publicly post details of the other 50 sessions due to confidentiality concerns. After reviewing the session lists, a couple of tipsters note the conspicuous absence of sessions covering Apple's WebObjects technology. In fact, there is no mention of WebObjects at all. Historically, the WWDC offered at least one session devoted to the Web technology, which makes it easy to quickly develop and deploy Java server applications on Mac OS X. The fate of WebObjects has been in question for some time now. The last known update to the technology came over a year ago, with the last major update dating back even further. Apple currently uses the technology to power its online store and the iTunes Music Store, implying that it will likely live-on in some form. Sources had previously predicted that Apple would introduce version 5.3 of WebObjects alongside the release of Tiger, but recent supporting evidence is lacking. One of the 50 sessions Apple has yet to announce will likely hold the key to the future of WebObjects.

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29 Comments

hmurchison

said about 19 years ago

Webobjects looks suspiciously dead. Long live Core Data!

johnq

said about 19 years ago

Remember the one day that WebObjects went from being a $50,000 "solution" to a $499 shrink-wrapped product?

(My prices may be off. But at one point the price dropped like a stone).

macnut222

said about 19 years ago

Quote:

Originally posted by johnq
Remember the one day that WebObjects went from being a $50,000 "solution" to a $499 shrink-wrapped product?

(My prices may be off. But at one point the price dropped like a stone).

I think the price dropped to $699.

louzer

said about 19 years ago

Web Objects is just another technology that Apple had no idea on how to market or use, and have basically let die. No meetings at WWDC come as no surprise to me (although the fact they had some last year do)

eat@me

said about 19 years ago

Quote:

Originally posted by Louzer
Web Objects is just another technology that Apple had no idea on how to market or use, and have basically let die. No meetings at WWDC come as no surprise to me (although the fact they had some last year do)

too much good open source java application servers these days (Jboss, etc). The days of propeitary content management systems (like Vignette) and application servers is drawing to a close.

even though webobjects supports tons of standards it appears proprietary.