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= WOLips/WOProject =

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This is the home page for WOProject/WOLips open source project.

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With the deprecation of the Apple-supplied WebObjects development tools in the WO5.4 timeframe, WOProject/WOLips has become the recommended toolset for WebObjects development and is the toolset that Apple itself uses internally.

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Almost all of the functionality provided by the Apple toolset (XCode, EOModeler, WOBuilder, etc) has been duplicated, greatly expanded upon or re-thought from the ground up in Eclipse and WOLips. WOProject/WOLips is the net effect of thousands of hours of freely-given and paid-for labor by many talented developers, and it is constantly improving.

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"constantly improving" ... at the turn of 2008 into 2009 WOLips made a large step forward (see [WOLips Blog|http://wolips.blogspot.com/]). Wiki's being what they are, this one has not yet caught up with that change -- most of what was true before is still true, but some is not, though what is not (mostly in the area of framework management) is better\!

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WOProject/WOLips provides a more comprehensive and powerful toolset for developing Web, Web Service and Java Client applications than has ever been available before.

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== Installing WOProject/WOLips ==

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[[WOLips can be installed>>Installing WOLips]] in several different ways, ranging from a complete turn-key installer that will give you everything you need to get started, all the way down to the source code direct from the [[Github repository>>https://github.com/wolips/wolips]].

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== Troubleshooting Your Installation ==

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The number one cause of problems is a missing or incorrect [[wolips.properties]] file.

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== Migrating from Xcode-Based Development ==

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Once you have [[installed>>Installing WOLips]] WOLips you can move any existing Xcode projects to WOLips using one of the following methods, depending on the complexity of your migration.

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* If you only have a couple of frameworks and applications, and those projects are not very complex, you can do a [[manual migration>>Import an Xcode project into WOLips]].

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* If you have a couple of projects and you didn't put your components and classes in sub folders then try the "[[fleeto>>http://www.global-village.net/migrate.to.eclipse/home]]" script from [[Chuck Hill>>~~chuckhill]].

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* If you have a complex project and/or many projects, use the [[XcodeMigration]] tool from [[Pascal Robert>>~~probert]]. This is the recommended method for migration as it will greatly simplify migrating even a couple projects.

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== WOProject/WOLips Tutorials ==

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Once you are ready to start developing, look here for many helpful [[tutorials>>Tutorials]] and [[Screen/Podcast>>http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=270165303]] detailing how to make the most of WOProject/WOLips. Tutorials range from setting up new projects to deployment and include topics for both beginners and experts.

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* WOLips [[Tutorials>>Tutorials]]

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* WebObjects & WOLips [[Podcast>>http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=270165303]]

== Subprojects ==

* **[[WOLips]]** : WOLips is a set of Eclipse tools for WebObjects development.

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* **[[WOProject-Ant>>WOProject-Ant]]** : provides a way to build WebObjects applications and standalone Java launchers with [[Ant>>http://ant.apache.org]].

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* **[[WOProject-Maven>>WOProject-Maven]]** : provides a way to build WebObjects applications and standalone Java launchers with [[Maven>>http://maven.apache.org]].

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* **[[EOModelDoc]]** : a command line tool to generate HTML documentation of a set of EOModels

== Quick Links ==

* [[WOLips Blog>>http://wolips.blogspot.com/]]

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* [[Mailing Lists]]

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* [[WOProject/WOLips Bug/Issue Tracker>>http://issues.objectstyle.org/jira/secure/BrowseProject.jspa?id=10001]]