WO has turned me into a lazy programmer
WO has turned me into a lazy programmer
- Subject: WO has turned me into a lazy programmer
- From: Dov Rosenberg <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:48:59 -0400
I'm not sure I see the big problem with Apple taking some of the focus off
WO.
JSP programming is so much cooler than developing reusable components with
WO. The fact I can use Dreamweaver and Javascript is so much more powerful
than being able to create some silly components that can be reused over and
over and know how to respond to server side events. STRUTS makes JSP
programming even easier because now I can maintain a lot of my interaction
with an XML file and swap out components at runtime, I wish there were some
other tool that had a strong MVC design!!
With JSP coding I can use Dreamweaver or any number of tools to create my
little components and glue them together with a zillion file includes and
conditional logic. With WO I have to use a single tool to do all of my GUI
work, and my components are stupid enough to figure things out for
themselves.
I know hand coding JBDC is a pain in the a**, but it is good for the soul.
EOF just makes you lazy and allows you to spend way too much time with users
trying to figure out what they really want. At least with JDBC, I can spend
my time much more pleasantly behind my computer using my debugging tools
instead of dealing with those pesky users. I'll bet there are a lot of EOF
developers that don't even know the thrill of making a 4 table join to get a
scrap of information!!
J2EE and EJB is a great leap forward compared to EOF. With EJB I can make
all sorts of deployment decisions after the coding has been done and store
them in an XML file. With EOF I don't have that luxury, all I can do is give
it some login information and tell it where my data is. If I want to create
a cross database compatible EJB application I can create different versions
of all my SQL statements, with EOF all I can do is use EOPrototypes - how
lazy is that!!
What this world needs is less lazy programmers. I say make their world more
difficult to help rebuild some of the hard working character that has made
this country great!! If everything were given to you on a silver platter -
you would become spoiled too!!
Dov Rosenberg
Conviveon Corporation
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