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!