The TownSmith frameworks have been developed using the award winning and market leading WebObjects application server. WebObjects and its Enterprise Objects Framework provide a mature and proven foundation that the TownSmith frameworks build upon to allow you to develop community oriented sites in a fraction of the time needed to build them from scratch.

TownSmith and WebObjects are built using state of the art Object Oriented technologies allowing customers to realize improved productivity through code reuse as well as Object Oriented design strategies and patterns such as inheritance and polymorphism. Objective-C enables the basic design and implementation while Java wrappers allow Java developers to take advantage of the frameworks as well.

TownSmith can be used with a wide variety of databases (virtually any database that uses the commonly accepted ODBC standard). TownSmith can also be deployed on a wide variety of platforms including Sun Solaris, HP/UX, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Macintosh OSX Server. Deployment support for Linux is forthcoming. The functionality of TownSmith has been tested on all recent versions of major browser software packages for pc and Macintosh computers.

To read an independent white paper on WebObjects, visit http://www.apple.com/webobjects/whitepaper/index.html.

Read more about TownSmith in Apple's Enterprise Software Customer Profile