WebObjects/Project WONDER/History

A brief history of Project WONDER. (Original source: [Introduction to Project WONDER]).

History

• A dotcom is born: eResource
• Its focus: commercial real estate on the web
  • Big user & advocate of DirectToWeb — more on that later
• Later on eResource was renamed NetStruxr
  • But name lives on...
  • Classes were already prefixed with ER
  • Switching to NS would cause namespace conflicts
  • Even today, WONDER's classes begin with ER
• Folks from NetStruxr, now working on WONDER:
  • Patrice Gautier — one of DirectToWeb's original authors!
  • Max Muller
  • Travis Cripps
  • Jim Roepcke
• NetStruxr open-sourced a great deal of its code
• Lots of innovative, high-quality code
• But there were a couple of issues:
  • No efficient method to contribute back to NetStruxr
    • No CVS repository, no mailing lists, etc.
  • Was coded in Java for WebObjects 4.5
    • Needed some rewriting for version 5
• Unfortunately, NetStruxr closed for business
• Fortunately, the rewritten code was placed into a public SourceForge project: WONDER

ERJavaMail

• Revision of Camille Troillard's famous OdaikoJavaMail
• Integration of Jonathan Rentzsch's not-so-famous JRMailDelivery
  • Drop-in replacement for WOMailDelivery
  • Renamed to ERWOMailDelivery

WOPayPal

• Easy WebObjects PayPal integration
• Donated by Travis Cripps

Validity

• Gammastream's formally commercial offering now part of WONDER!