Developing Web Applications on the Mac

Question

How does one build Web applications on the Mac that is not RoR or PHP? Can Web applications be created using Objective-C and Cocoa? I'm entirely new to this subject

- Hahnemann

Answer 1

Cocoa is really not a web application framework, so I wouldn't recommend you go that route. WebObjects (see KiwiBastard's answer) used to be written in Objective-C but (since version 5, I think) is written in Java.

Because OS X is a UNIX OS, many of the standard web stack will run (in fact, most of it is installed by deafult). So you could write CGI in perl, python, C, or whatever. You can also use JBoss (a Java app server) bundled with OS X Server or any of the other Java web-app stacks.

I'm not sure why you are against RoR and PHP, but you may also want to take a look at some of the python web frameworks 1 such as TurboGears, Django, Zope, etc.

1 Python 2.5 is also installed with OS X 10.5