<operating system> Apple Computer, Inc.'s application
server framework for developing dynamic web applications.
WebObjects applications accept HTTP requests either directly
(usually on a specific port) or via an adaptor that sits
between them and the web server. Adaptors are either CGI
programs or web server plug-ins (NSAPI or ISAPI).
The server processes special tags in HTML pages to produce
dynamic but standard HTML. Tools are provided to easily set
and get object properties and invoke methods from these tags.
Applications can maintain state over multiple HTTP
request-response transactions (which are intrinsically
stateless). Applications can also use Apple's Enterprise
Object Framework object relational mapping libraries for
object persistence and database access.
WebObjects was originally based on Objective C and a simple
scripting language but now is more likely to be used with
Java. Versions are available for OS X, Windows and
Unix.
Apple acquired WebObjects from NeXT, along with Steve
Jobs.
WebObjects Home.
(2005-01-14)
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