I’m working with different JSF frameworks for some time now and had a look back to the Struts-based Common-Controls recently.
My last hands-on on Struts was in 2003. So, I can’t remember in detail if I had a good or bad feeling about using it. I remember that I chose it to get faster results. The learning curve was quite steep. But, reconsidering the time-frame I had the result was ok to me.
Todays JSF experiences in mind it was ...
MoreI had another look at NetBeans 5.5, incl. the Enterprise and Visual Web Packs, as some comments suggested. Although, the comparison of a full-blown NetBeans with a standard Eclipse WTP is a bit unfair, I don’t use e.g. myEclipse, I tried to compare apples and oranges.
Well, for short: if you worked with Eclipse for some time you feel like driving your car with an active emergency brake. Most annoying, the Netbeans IDE stops for seconds from time to time ...
MoreIf you develop with JSF products you should try to get rid of “tag-based” and get something “visual”. JSF is component-based and similar to the good old GUI development, a lot of us did a decade ago with Delphi, Visual Basic and the like.
If you have a look at OpenSource and cost-free products, there’s not much you can call “visual development”. New in this circle of cost-free wannabes is Exadel Studio Pro.
I already had a look at their standard ...
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Since the mid-1990s Rainer worked as a consultant, developer, architect, team leader, systems engineer, project manager, scrum master and scrum coach – since 2000 with a strong focus on JEE. He was also part of “the source” for 3 years working at Sun Microsystems, Germany.
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