On Oct 27, 2007, at 12:31 PM, M. David Minnigerode wrote:
My current employer is phasing out our java desktop app (my product)
in favor of a web based app (JSF, etc). Can't really argue with the
decision though. Java Desktop apps are in a strange place... Not
native enough to take over from .net/cocoa/qt/etc... and not light
enough to do what a web app does. In our market (banks, airlines
etc) jnlp is a non-starter (don't ask)... A web app is what the
customer expects and now with ajaxy/web2.0y stuff they can get close
enough to the java desktop that swing is not even on the table any
more.
I was there about a year ago when I had to migrate my desktop app into
a webapp. I looked at JSP, Struts, and JSF and decided that these
were solutions in search of a problem. Having come from a Swing
Desktop environment, these 'solutions' seemed way too complicated to me.
I looked at many of the major AJAX frameworks, GWT, ZK, Dojo, Rico,
Prototype, script.aculo, and even Adobe's Flex. Most were nice but not
enough flexible, others has major performance issues on lesser endowed
boxes.
I eventually found little known framework which blew my socks off with
performance and seduced me with the source code I would be writing.
It was Echo2 from NextApp.com. Fully open source and free. There is
nice demo at:
Use the accordion pane to select the "Technology" panel, the click on
the "Java Development" button you can see the source code, then run
the app which is defined by the source. You will see an immediate
similarity to AWT with a flavor of Swing.
I don't know if you have already committed to a development platform,
if not, check out Echo2. More specifically take a look at the Echo2
fork which was done by some guys in Australia called Cooee at
Karora.org. They took the Echo2 source, added a nice bug reporting
system (JIRA), scheduled releases, and Maven repository support.
I you have Leopard, you now have Maven installed. You can run a
archetype which I've been developing to create a runnable demo
application. This archetype is underdevelopment and is likely to change.
From terminal run the following. Maven will install what it need and
then create the application
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