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About Web Objects

From an information-technology perspective, WebObjects is a scalable, high-availability, high-performance application server. From the viewpoint of a developer, though, WebObjects is an extensible object-oriented platform upon which you can rapidly develop and deploy applications that integrate existing data and systems. WebObjects allows you to build applications that leverage the connectivity that the Internet or an intranet provides using a multitiered client-server architecture.

The web was created to simplify access to electronically published documents. Originally webpages were just static text pages with hyperlinks to other documents. However, they quickly evolved into highly graphical animated presentations. Along the way, a degree of interactivity was introduced, allowing people browsing the web to fill out forms and thereby supply data to the server.

WebObjects allows you to take the next logical step. With it, you can produce full-fledged applications for use either across the Internet or within a corporate intranet. Users not only fill out forms but can author content stored in back-end databases. By tracking user sessions and preferences, you can offer a custom user experience much like a desktop application.

These applications can be web-based, and thus accessible through a web browser, or can have the full interactivity of a stand alone desktop application. Your application can also provide web services to other web applications.

Contents:

Dynamic Web Publishing
Different Client-Server Applications
Rapid Prototyping
Enterprise Objects
The WebObjects Advantage

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