The settings for the WebObjects adaptor have this very temptingly named distribution method called “load balancing”.

Don’t use it. Use round-robin, its simple, and it works. If you have multiple

Instead of using awake and sleep, consider lazily building things in your accessors, making your components stateless, and using reset instead.

90% of your pages could be built with a URL of just the page name and the primary key of a root object. That is:

/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyApp.woa/wa/MyPage?pkey=12

Write code to grab a single object

If you have a common base class that for all your components, pages, ajax actions, and EOF objects, you can keep from repeating yourself.

You’ll want your base component class to inherit from

If you have a component that manually pulls its values out of the bindings, if you have a ^ in front of a value name in a .wod file, that tells webobjects to look for that value in the bindings