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Janus Brownbag • May04/00
Janus &WebObjects
Janus ?• An integrated suite of Web-based applications (a portal) to provide personalized (and, eventually, customized) information services to members of the University community.
WebObjects ?Application Development Environment
• Its core is a server-side Java development environment for implementing application specific logic
• It provides a development tool for building a Web-based user interface to Java applications.
• It provides object-oriented access to database environments
WebObjects ?Application Deployment Environment
• It’s an application server environment that sits between a Web server (which interacts with a browser) and data sources.
High Level ViewWeb BrowsersJava Clients
Data Sources
Web Servers
Distributed Objects
Data Services
Advantages ...• Provides industrial strength programmable access to information resources
• Provides Object-oriented, Java-based, development environment (enables reusable module development, provides frameworks of useful classes, etc.)
• Provides Cross Platform capabilities (Mac OS X and NT for development; and Solaris and HP-UX for deployment)
… advantages• Provides application independent adapters to multiple Web Servers (Apache, Netscape, Microsoft)
• Provides adapters to multiple relational databases (Oracle, Sybase, Informix, ODBC), data sources (LDAP, XML), and Enterprise Systems (PeopleSoft, SAP)
• Provides redundant, scalable operation (multiple instances of a single application on multiple machines).
Challenges !• WebObjects is a lot to learn:
• Understanding object-oriented approach to design and development of applications
• Learning the depth and power of the class libraries provided, including the Enterprise Objects model for data access
• Learning to use the suite of powerful and comprehensive development tools
WebObjects Builder
ProjectBuilder
EOModeler
Demo ...
Questions ?