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IIRC, WebObjects had an application called WebObjects Builder that was essentially a WYSIWYG HTML editor that was the web equivalent of Cocoa's Interface Builde
by cmg 10y ago
IIRC, WebObjects had an application called WebObjects Builder that was essentially a WYSIWYG HTML editor that was the web equivalent of Cocoa's Interface Builder. You'd drag & drop UI elements and hook them up to data objects, which would generate Java classes in the background.
- Scramblejams 10y agoI hate web dev, and I find myself wishing that there were a modern equivalent of what you've described. Is there one that doesn't suck?
- mwcampbell 10y agoVaadin [1] might be close, if you don't mind the JVM on the server side. [1]: https://vaadin.com/introduction https://vaadin.com/introduction
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- Cyph0n 10y ago+1. This is the closest thing to what OP described that I know of.
- pouta 10y agoSearch for relax/relax on GitHub. You'll love it.
- mikecsh 10y agoCappuccino [1] is a port of Objective-C to Objective-J (plus transpiler to JS) combined with a port of the Cocoa Frameworks for building client side "desktop class" web apps. You can use interface builder in XCode to layout your UI graphically. [1] http://cappuccino-project.org http://cappuccino-project.org
- pjmlp 10y ago> which would generate Java classes in the background. Initially it was Objective-C classes not Java. Web Objects was later ported to Java and then it did generate Java classes.