WebObjects/Project WONDER/History

A brief history of Project WONDER. (Original source: [Introduction to Project WONDER]). History A dotcom is born: eResource Its focus: commercial real estate on the web Big user & advocate of DirectToWeb — more on that later Later on eResource was renamed NetStruxr But name lives on... Classes were already prefixed with ER Switching to NS would cause namespace conflicts Even today, WONDER's classes begin with ER Folks from NetStruxr, now working on WONDER: Patrice Gautier — one of DirectToWeb's original authors! Max Muller Travis Cripps Jim Roepcke NetStruxr open-sourced a great deal of its code Lots of innovative, high-quality code But there were a couple of issues: No efficient method to contribute back to NetStruxr No CVS repository, no mailing lists, etc. Was coded in Java for WebObjects 4.5 Needed some rewriting for version 5 Unfortunately, NetStruxr closed for business Fortunately, the rewritten code was placed into a public SourceForge project: WONDER ERJavaMail Revision of Camille Troillard's famous OdaikoJavaMail Integration of Jonathan Rentzsch's not-so-famous JRMailDelivery Drop-in replacement for WOMailDelivery Renamed to ERWOMailDelivery WOPayPal Easy WebObjects PayPal integration Donated by Travis Cripps Validity Gammastream's formally commercial offering now part of WONDER!