Martin#WebObjects & #J2EE at #Apple still going strong.
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Der Best¿¤tigungscode f¿¿r Ihre Apple-ID lautet: 432567
Johannes BrakensiekReal talk.
Some large #WebObjects applications open sourced publicly: PGI #Cocktail, represented at https://www.asso-cocktail.fr/
Sources are at https://sourcesup.renater.fr/, repos prefixed with "cocktail", last commits from around 2015:
https://sourcesup.renater.fr/search/?type_of_search=soft&group_id=0&words=cocktail&Search=Search
It's a pity I don't speak French, so it's a little bit hard to get what it's about as the source code is French as well.
But it seems to be an administration suite for the needs of #universities. From finances to staff to inscription.
Even #WebObjects #apps look quite ok using that theme. If only tabs would adopt to the GTK stylesheet a little more.
Ok, had a weekend off and relaxed yesterday night doing some retro computing.
Installed #MacOSXServer #Tiger on the old #PowerMac #G5. Luckily I remembered that this machine does boot from a USB pen drive when ones uses the right commands in #OpenFirmware.
Services started: #blojsom and the #WebObjects server.
Caught a bad cold. Woke up all night and found myself dreaming about #WebObjects. Is this a sign from the heavens? And what do they want to tell me?
Holger HoffstätteTFW you open your http port for a moment and suddenly find this in your access log..what year is it even? 💩
access_log:45.156.130.37 - - [19/Aug/2025:21:24:44 +0200] "GET /helpdesk/WebObjects/Helpdesk.woa HTTP/1.1" 404
Me Saying Web Objects
It looks and works way better than LibreOffice Base (sorry) and it's real client-server architecture. Yes, it isn't #FLOSS, which would be too awesome.
It's still from Apple, you know. (They probably still regret they wrote this in #Java in their early naive childhood days, not doing peek capitalism.)
It's just so awesome. You lay out a database schema, import it to EOModeler, fix a few data types, set some rules (GUI! no freaking XML writing, simple syntax if you want to write) and the GUI looks exactly like you want a database app to look like.