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What Is a WebObjects Application?

What is WebObjects?

From a client perspective, WebObjects is a scalable, high-availability, high performance application server. From the viewpoint of a developer, though, WebObjects is an open platform upon which you can rapidly develop and deploy web applications which integrate existing data and systems. WebObjects is especially suited to two kinds of applications: those that do dynamic publishing, and those traditional client-server applications that will benefit from the increased connectivity that the World Wide Web provides.

The web was created to simplify access to electronically-published documents. Originally just static text pages with hyperlinks to other documents, web pages 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.

What Is WebObjects?

: Dynamic HTML Publishing
: Web-Enabled Client-Server Applications
: Accessing Legacy Data
: State Management
: Performance

: Java Client

How WebObjects Applications Work

: Server-Based WebObjects Applications
: Java Client-Based WebObjects Applications
: WebObjects Adaptors
: The Request-Response Loop
: WebObjects Applications

The Parts of a WebObjects Application

: Classes
: Web Components
: Template
: Code or Script File
: Bindings
: Resources
: Web Server Resources
: Frameworks

Developing a WebObjects Application

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