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user47214
user47214

Reputation: 51

Developing Web Applications on the Mac

How does one build Web applications on the Mac that is not RoR or PHP? Can Web applications be created using Objective-C and Cocoa? I'm entirely new to this subject

- Hahnemann

Upvotes: 5

Views: 6638

Answers (10)

James
James

Reputation: 1

I think that's the problem - ask a hundred people and you get a hundred answers! On the PC, I develop using .NET and Visual Studio, and that's it. I was also hoping for an Apple equivalent.

Upvotes: 0

James
James

Reputation: 1

think thats the problem - ask a hundred people and you get a hundred answers! On the Pc I develop using .NET and Visual Studio - and thats it. I was also hoping for an Apple equivalent. An not something obscure that you can't readily hire programmers for in the market (well here in the UK anyway).

Upvotes: 0

Vince V.
Vince V.

Reputation: 3143

I'm using eclipse for java & php projects.

Upvotes: 0

Adam Mika
Adam Mika

Reputation: 654

If you want your web app to look like an Objective-C and Cocoa app, you could look into SproutCore.

It's a Javascript framework, but pretty easy to understand and use.

Upvotes: 2

Keltia
Keltia

Reputation: 14743

Is your problem with Rails or Ruby? If the former, you may want to have a look at Merb, many interesting links here

Upvotes: 1

Stephan Eggermont
Stephan Eggermont

Reputation: 15907

I am using Seaside on Squeak (Smalltalk). I daily transfer the code from pc to mac and back again, as it is fully cross-platform.

Upvotes: 0

Mike
Mike

Reputation: 8963

I have to recommend Grails:

http://grails.org

If you have experience with cocoa then:

http://cappuccino.org/

Otherwise, stick to an established technology.

Upvotes: 4

Jonathan
Jonathan

Reputation: 1602

Have a look a Objective-J and Cappuccino, it's basically Cocoa for the Web. You can even use interface builder!(Build your web GUI with Drag and Drop)

Upvotes: 7

Barry Wark
Barry Wark

Reputation: 107754

Cocoa is really not a web application framework, so I wouldn't recommend you go that route. WebObjects (see KiwiBastard's answer) used to be written in Objective-C but (since version 5, I think) is written in Java.

Because OS X is a UNIX OS, many of the standard web stack will run (in fact, most of it is installed by deafult). So you could write CGI in perl, python, C, or whatever. You can also use JBoss (a Java app server) bundled with OS X Server or any of the other Java web-app stacks.

I'm not sure why you are against RoR and PHP, but you may also want to take a look at some of the python web frameworks 1 such as TurboGears, Django, Zope, etc.

1 Python 2.5 is also installed with OS X 10.5

Upvotes: 9

JamesSugrue
JamesSugrue

Reputation: 15011

The "Apple" way is to use WebObjects

Upvotes: 7

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