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1 === Prefixes ===
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3 WebObjects uses three prefixes:
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5 **NS** stands for "NextStep", a slightly historical tag, but this contains foundation classes such as arrays (NSArray), etc.
6 **EO** for "EnterpriseObject", data modeling layer, which was actually around before WebObjects
7 **WO** for WebObjects which is the view and control layer built on Enterprise Objects
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9 === CamelCase ===
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11 The naming convention for objects in WebObjects is that names are written in [[CamelCase>>url:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase||shape="rect"]] (which is somewhat controversial since long names are less readable and it is somewhat ugly).
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13 === WebObjects Directory Layout ===
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15 The way in which the various development-time and deployment-time files, and collections of files, are organized, follows a convention established in history.