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Does that mean Cupertino has already rewritten iTunes and App Store and Apple Online Store? I'm guessing they're going to keep the WebObjects style URLs for com

Does that mean Cupertino has already rewritten iTunes and App Store and Apple Online Store? I'm guessing they're going to keep the WebObjects style URLs for compatibility with old versions of iTunes and App Store.

0x0 10y ago
At least https://itunesconnect.apple.com https://itunesconnect.apple.com appears to have been rewritten in AngularJS. The https://developer.apple.com/ https://developer.apple.com/ portal also got a new UI not too long ago.
- ErikAugust 10y ago
  Pretty sure developer.apple.com has been Rails for a while. Maybe 4-5 years.
- coldtea 10y ago
  It's about the backend, not the UI/frontend.
  - jbverschoor 10y ago
    Do you think they're using foundationdb?
    - jrochkind1 10y ago
      Why would anyone think that? Do you have a reason to think so?
      - tetsuoironman 10y ago
        They bought them? http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/24/apple-acquires-durable-database-company-foundationdb/ http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/24/apple-acquires-durable-data...
- spatulon 10y ago
  Given that your first link redirects to https://itunesconnect.apple.com/itc/static/login?view=1&path=%2FWebObjects%2FiTunesConnect.woa%3F https://itunesconnect.apple.com/itc/static/login?view=1&path... ...it looks like they're still using WebObjects.
  - orangecat 10y ago
    Look the DOM in the browser inspector, it's definitely Angular. (And angular.version reports 1.2, they need to upgrade). The WebObjects path is probably for backward compatibility.
jrochkind1 10y ago
I've suspected for years that if iTunes Store/App Store were still on WO at all, it was a forked in-house customized WO.
- threeseed 10y ago
  No it wasn't. Apple Online Store was vanilla. But iTunes Store at least used the Project Wonder libraries which is almost a fork in of itself. https://github.com/wocommunity/wonder https://github.com/wocommunity/wonder
  - jrochkind1 10y ago
    Ha! That's kind of hilarious that ITMS used Project Wonder. Thanks for the info, assuming you had some way to know. :)
threeseed 10y ago
I used to work on those projects back a few years ago so it all might have changed but I doubt it. iTunes Store was a more traditional monolithic WebObjects app using Project Wonder. Apple Online Store was a microservices based architecture which really just the HTTP routing part of WebObjects.

0x0 10y ago

At least https://itunesconnect.apple.com https://itunesconnect.apple.com appears to have been rewritten in AngularJS. The https://developer.apple.com/ https://developer.apple.com/ portal also got a new UI not too long ago.

ErikAugust 10y ago
Pretty sure developer.apple.com has been Rails for a while. Maybe 4-5 years.
coldtea 10y ago
It's about the backend, not the UI/frontend.
- jbverschoor 10y ago
  Do you think they're using foundationdb?
  - jrochkind1 10y ago
    Why would anyone think that? Do you have a reason to think so?
    - tetsuoironman 10y ago
      They bought them? http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/24/apple-acquires-durable-database-company-foundationdb/ http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/24/apple-acquires-durable-data...
spatulon 10y ago
Given that your first link redirects to https://itunesconnect.apple.com/itc/static/login?view=1&path=%2FWebObjects%2FiTunesConnect.woa%3F https://itunesconnect.apple.com/itc/static/login?view=1&path... ...it looks like they're still using WebObjects.
- orangecat 10y ago
  Look the DOM in the browser inspector, it's definitely Angular. (And angular.version reports 1.2, they need to upgrade). The WebObjects path is probably for backward compatibility.

jrochkind1 10y ago

I've suspected for years that if iTunes Store/App Store were still on WO at all, it was a forked in-house customized WO.

threeseed 10y ago
No it wasn't. Apple Online Store was vanilla. But iTunes Store at least used the Project Wonder libraries which is almost a fork in of itself. https://github.com/wocommunity/wonder https://github.com/wocommunity/wonder
- jrochkind1 10y ago
  Ha! That's kind of hilarious that ITMS used Project Wonder. Thanks for the info, assuming you had some way to know. :)

threeseed 10y ago

I used to work on those projects back a few years ago so it all might have changed but I doubt it. iTunes Store was a more traditional monolithic WebObjects app using Project Wonder. Apple Online Store was a microservices based architecture which really just the HTTP routing part of WebObjects.