API editor, and component validation have been added. Application profiling tools. EOF 4.5 comes with a new sample adaptor: the LDAP adaptor. Direct to Web now allows you to create your own visual style and exposes a great deal of new API. Java Client extended considerably, including a new user interface generation layer, Direct to Java Client. 4.5.1 First version to support Mac OS X 10.x and Windows 2000. Last version to support HP-UX and Mac OS X Server 1.0. Last version that supported the Objective-C API. 5.0 — May 2001 Major rewrite from Objective-C to Java. 5.1 — January 10, 2002 Create and deploy Enterprise JavaBeans using the built-in container based on OpenEJB. Deploy WebObjects applications as JSPs or Servlets on top of third-party application servers. Access and manipulate data stored in JNDI or LDAP directory services. Automatically generate desktop Java client applications with rich, interactive user interfaces. Utilize the WebObjects template engine and object-relational mapping for seamless XML messaging. 5.1.2 — May 7, 2002 Contains general bug fixes for WebObjects 5.1 on all platforms. 5.1.3 — June 7, 2002 Contains targeted bug fixes for WebObjects 5.1 on all platforms. 5.1.4 — August 22, 2002 Compatibility with Mac OS X 10.2. 5.2 — November 12, 2002 Web Services support. Improvements to Java EE integration Java Web Start support. Improvements to robustness and stability of Enterprise Objects. Major bug fixes led many developers to hail this as the first stable 5.x release of WebObjects. 5.2.1 — March 21, 2003 Resolved some incompatibilities with the latest Java 1.4.1 implementation for Mac OS X. 5.2.2 — October 22, 2003 Compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and the Xcode IDE. JBoss on Panther Server qualification. Qualified for Java 1.4.1. Fixes for EOF runtime and WOFileUpload. 5.2.3 — March 16, 2004 Performance and stability update addressing issues with CLOSE_WAIT states in deployment using JavaMonitor and wotaskd and issues related to EOF under high load. Qualified for Java 1.4.2. 5.2.4 — May 2, 2005 Compatibility with Mac OS X 10.4 and the Xcode 2.0 IDE. 5.3 (developer) for Mac OS X 10.4 — June 6, 2005 WebObjects developer tools included free with the Xcode IDE (v2.1). Development and deployment on platforms other than Mac OS X no longer supported by Apple. EOModels can be created and edited within Xcode with a new EOModeler plugin that integrates with the CoreData modeling tools. WebObjects Builder has