Ah, WebObjects.  In a lot of ways, it was the Ruby on Rails of it&#x27;s day.  It was one of the first integrated, opinionated platforms with all the tools to build web sites backed by a database. Architecturally, it was years ahead of the first Java application server platforms; the persistence model so much better than the first iteration of enterprise Java Beans.<p>Its major drawback, in the early days at least, was that it was designed as an Objective-C framework.  By the time I started using it (around 2000), Java was supported, but it was clearly an afterthought and you dealt with a buggy bridge to ObjC components and Objective-C-isms all over.