Steve introduces Enterprise Objects Framework (EOF) at about 25 minutes in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j02b8Fuz73A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j02b8Fuz73

Steve introduces Enterprise Objects Framework (EOF) at about 25 minutes in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j02b8Fuz73A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j02b8Fuz73A EOF was one of the key components of making NeXT such a powerful OS, and why it was so heavily used on Wall Street. When they created WebObjects, they, of course, put EOF behind it, and yes, it is by far the most impressive ORM I have ever used. Thankfully, a well known WO developer, Andrus Adamchik, has developed Cayanne using the same principals behind EOF: http://cayenne.apache.org/ http://cayenne.apache.org/