Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Enterprise Objects Framework was introduced by NeXT in 1994 as a pioneering object-relational mapping product for its NeXTSTEP and OpenStep development platforms. The EOF abstracts the process of interacting with a relational database, mapping database rows to Java or Objective-C objects. This largely relieves developers from writing low-level SQL code. EOF enjoyed some niche success in the mid- 1990s among financial institutions who were attracted to the rapid application development advantages of NeXT's object-oriented platform. Since Apple Computer's merger with NeXT in 1996, EOF has evolved into a fully-integrated part of WebObjects, an application server also originally from NeXT.

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