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Pascal Robert has just setup an online survey for WebObjects developers. The survey is short and direct2thePoint so you won’t spend more than 5 minutes on it. The results will be delivered to Apple, to help them focus their development resources on the needs of the community. As Pascal said, the rules are:

• - One survey per organization, if I see the same organization more than one time, I will delete the duplicates
• - Please, please, be honest in your answers

So, if you are an WebObjects developer, take the survey now!

As you may know, Safari 3.0 finally fully supports SVGs. Based on that, Ravi Mendis released the first beta of svgobjects 2.0, an SVG framework for WebObjects. Apparently, the framework started with the goal of drawing charts dynamically, but the author extended it to support the drawing of full-screen interfaces that could be used on the desktop and, even more, on mobile devices, like the iPhone. It may become a very useful framework for building iPhone-targeted web apps!

Well, WWDC is almost done, I’m waiting for the last session on Level 3 of Moscone, near one of these really big windows.

It’s a really big pain to not being able to write here all that I have learned about WebObjects (for those of you who don’t know, WWDC sessions are covered by NDAs).

Someone asked on the WebObjects mailing list how do we classify the WO news, from A to C. Well, I can say, A++++! I think the future of WebObjects will be susprising. Apple showed us some stuff that, in my opinion, is probably almost as revolutionary as the original WebObjects framework itself. But we still will have to wait.

The only thing I can say more is: if you are (considering) doing web application development, don’t be stupid - learn WebObjects NOW. Currently, it’s the most powerful web application development environment by far. And in some future time this advantage will be an order of magnitude higher.

I’ll go tomorrow to SF, to assist WOWODC 2007 and WWDC 2007, so I won’t post here for some time.

WOWODC was organized by Pascal Robert, as a result of the lack of support Apple gives to WebObjects developers, and will feature some well-known people in the WebObjects community, like Chuck Hill, Mike Schrag or Anjo Krank, who we will certainly flood with questions. Mr. Pierre Frisch, the WebObjects Product Manager at Apple will be there too. This will be a great year for WebObjects, as it’s community will provide the attention it deserves!

See you in two weeks.