On Oct 7, 2006, at 7:15 PM, Lindsay Steele wrote:
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.
Yeah, this type of stack is very nice. Although the bad name that is stuck to Swing (not entirely undeserved), and too much AJAX hype (not entirely deserved) is what holds its adoption. I am also waiting for the Web Start improvements.
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.
Appreciate more feedback on that. We'll certainly be working on improving that.
Also related - 3.0 already has callback functionality discussed here recently - this is *the* way to add server-side logic and makes the entire ROP stack much more powerful.
Andrus
