My Take:
Click - Came about because of a perception that early versions of
Tapestry were a little confusing and the fact that everyone wants to
make their own framework. Although Click still pushes it's early
feature of ease of use, this is no longer the case when compared to
other frameworks. Tapestry has now moved on significantly with
usability being one of the major changes and has added many new features
such as the built in AJAX in 4.1.
Wicket: A more widely known framework, a bit like a more mature
Click. Very similar to Click with more features and a larger support
community. Both of these mean more testing and maturity. Anyone
looking at Click for the html components in code way of doing things
would do better using Wicket.
Tapestry: Mature, feature rich and Apache supported. Anyone that can
use Java has no problems with Tapestry. Quite easy to use and in the
future moving towards having more annotations in code which some say
increase usability. Personally I think it just clutters things.
Changes in versions reflect the needs of users. Things such as an
increased ease of use for new users have been put in past releases,
current releases are focusing on AJAX integration while future releases
continue to work on ease of use among other things.
Swing with Cayenne ROP: My personal favourite in the last few months
for quick internal CRUD applications. Gives all the advantages of a web
application with instant AJAX, a quick WYSIWYG interface builder using
netbeans and Matisse and all the advantages of a native application.
Start the application with java web start to make deployment and update
easy, create an exe file or just start with a batch file over the
network. Works well in an environment where you can control java
installed versions. Managing the different classes and class names on
the client and server can be a pain until you have deployments scripts
worked out but there is hope this might get better into the future. The
next version of Java is reported to have major advances in Java Web
Start as well.
Anyway .... I thought this was a Cayenne list anyway .. not a Click
pushing list.
Andrus Adamchik wrote:
Congrats to Malcolm and the Click team!
Click is indeed the easiest-to-use web framework on the market. Hope
that the final release, implying stable status, will lead to much
wider adoption.
Cheers,
Andrus
On Oct 4, 2006, at 11:59 PM, Malcolm Edgar wrote:
Hi All,
Click Framework 1.0 is now available.
For the list of changes please see:
http://click.sourceforge.net/docs/roadmap-changes.html
This release includes a number of new Cayenne examples.
www.avoka.com:8080/click-examples
regards Malcolm Edgar
