Last I heard, and this was around the switch to Intel (2005?), the iTunes store and online web store are run off of WebObjects. Apple probably saw that outside

Last I heard, and this was around the switch to Intel (2005?), the iTunes store and online web store are run off of WebObjects. Apple probably saw that outside web developers weren't using WebObjects enough to continue supporting it externally. That doesn't mean that they aren't using it (and maybe building on it) internally. I don't think it's that you can't use WebObjects anymore outside of Apple, it's that most people don't (not even in the Java community).