Apple WebObjects 5 - Manual (Page 10)

10 Further Investigations
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Apple Computer, Inc. January 2002
C H A P T E R 1
About This Book
Because WebObjects provides four distinct approaches to developing applications,
this book discusses them one by one, and compares their pros and cons to help you
decide which approach is appropriate for your application.
This book has the following chapters:
■ “What Is WebObjects?” (page 13) introduces the technologies of WebObjects
and how they fit together.
■ “Enterprise Objects” (page 25) describes the objects that lie at the heart of all
WebObjects applications and encapsulate your application’s business logic and
data.
■ “HTML-Based Applications” (page 37) describes the approach that allows you
to create HTML applications for the World Wide Web.
■ “Direct to Web Applications” (page 49) describes the rapid development
version of the HTML-based application approach.
■ “WebObjects Desktop Applications” (page 65) describes the approach with
which you can produce a graphical user interface application that runs on a
client machine.
■ “J2EE Integration” (page 87) explains how WebObjects implements Enterprise
JavaBeans and how it integrates with JavaServer Pages (JSP) and servlets.
■ “Choosing Your Approach” (page 91) summarizes the pros and cons of these
approaches, and then outlines the process you should go through to decide
which approach or combination of approaches is appropriate for your
environment.
Further Investigations
This book serves as a starting point. It surveys the technologies of WebObjects
without providing the details. This section lists sources of WebObjects information
for software developers. It is by no means an exhaustive list, and Apple’s
contribution to this list will grow.