Comment by grecy
11 years ago
I was a WebObjects Developer for 2 years from 2007-2009, the company I worked for still uses it for their massive health-care-related web apps. It's a really cool framwork to use, as it incorporates so many aspects that are usually provided by different libraries.
The developer community is small, but very active. Every year they hold a "World of Web Objects (WOWO)" conference right around WWDC in San Fran.
Project Wonder has done amazing work to bring Ajax and many other "Web 2.0" features to WO.
It does still power the iTunes store, and the Apple Store. A friend of mine that worked at our sister company landed a job with Apple working on the iTunes store, and AFAIK, he's still there doing that today.
I used to work at Apple many years ago in a past life but IIRC:
Project Wonder was definitely at the core of iTunes Store. They had your typical monolithic web application and used most of the WebObjects technologies.
The Apple Store was different. They had dozens/hundreds of micro services which used WebObjects only in the front i.e. to handle request/response and routing. They may have even switched it out by now.
Interesting. I remember reading the Project Wonder mailing lists and the creators and maintainers of it were certain that Wonder wasn't being used by Apple for anything "public facing", but they strongly suggested it was used a lot internally.
I've always wanted to work for Apple... care to share any thoughts?
Same advice given to me a few years back. If you're good and want to work at Apple doing web development, apply. They're hiring.