Fast Bytecodes for Funny Languages
Cliff Click discusses how to optimize generated bytecode for running on the JVM. Click analyzes and reports on several JVM languages and shows several places where they could increase performance.
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Posted by Floyd Marinescu on Aug 28, 2006 10:36 AM
Apple has announced it's new strategy for Web Objects on the webobjects-dev list last week, saying that the company will be be open sourcing the Web Objects framework and focus it's own engineering resources instead on the the Web Objects runtime environment [on the Mac]. It's areas of focus will be:
- Improving performance, manageability, and standards compliance
- Making WO work well with ANT and the most popular IDEs, including Xcode and Eclipse
- Opening and making public all standards and formats that WO depends upon
ThinkSecret is also reporting the Apple will be open sourcing most of WebObjects 5.4 next year and says that the new version will include use Apache WebServer instead of it's own, implement Java NIO and JMX. How to use Open Source SOA Safely in the Enterprise
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We use it at work and I hate it most of the time ;). But that it goes open source is a very good thing. Then finally I will be rid of the annoying 'request limit reached' development mode thingy. But with a bit of luck we will be ported to another framework by then.
Its about time. I wonder if the release of Sope has triggered this?
WO is a brilliant piece of software. Steep learning curve, but its the only software I have ever worked with that was capable of still amazing me with its outstanding conceptional thouroughness after several years of usage. I wish the project all the luck.
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I have used WebObjects since 1998 on Windows and even today I would say it is head and shoulders above existing J2EE solutions. The EOF DB Modeling is very easy to work with and makes DB access simple and easy to use as Objects. The page building is great and you can graphically bind directly from your DB objects to objects on pages. It is a great environment. You really can put serious applications together quickly with real logic, not just a Hello World, you can quickly build real applications hitting DBs doing useful things.
My only real complaint about WO is that Apple decided to pull it back and only support development and deployment on their platform. IMO this was a tragic mistake that has seriously reduced the potential user base for the product. Hopefully when opened up it will become fully available in dev and prod on other platforms again.
My company has a very large WO production environment that handles millions of hits per day, approx. 250 million unique user sessions per day, and is very stable. We do not run Macs, are not going to run Macs and are currently in an initiative coverting from WO to J2EE I am sad to say.
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