Changing the Rules with Direct to Web
h1 Intent
This is a document that I have been working on for quite some time, but I have always felt that it wasn't complete enough to actually put it out in the wild. WOWODC 2009 has rejuvenated community interest in D2W and the Wonder additions to it (ERD2W), and it seems like a good time to continue the recent work by Ramsey Gurley, David LeBer and Ravi Mendis to promote and improve D2W documentation and look frameworks and further expose the outstanding work done by the Wonder team (especially Anjo Krank who, to his credit, has tried at every opportunity to get people to look at this stuff for years).
Given the relative lack of documentation for such huge topic (and my relative lack of practical experience with the technology), the majority of this content has been culled and organized from almost 10 years of posts to the various WebObjects mailing lists. I have tried to put it in my own words, but if you think you recognize an old post about a given topic, you probably do. Unfortunately, the "official" documentation stopped long before the power of this technology was understood by WebObjects developers and the tool chain has changed significantly enough over the years that the original documentation and tutorials are a little hard to follow for someone starting out. With luck, this work will begin to address this issue for you. Please feel free to edit the content or post comments and questions here or on the lists. I look forward to a renewed dialog about D2W!