Yeah, sorry, I've been on this list for about a year now, but rarely post. We have a development team of 5 people who are all at the midlevel range with cf, few more than 5 years experience. I have about 8 years CF experience and am a Macromedia CF Trainer and co-author of an old book and MM classes.
We have an internal structure we use, but the problem I have with it is: A) people don't follow it closely and they think Fusebox offers them more than I do because they don't think things through B) there are no third party materials, if someone doesn't understand then they need to come back to me The third-party structure or methodology works because it's a big stick, not associated with me. So I definitely look at Mac II as lateral movement for my team and Struts as forward movement, but for what we do currently Mach II is enough. Don -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Sherwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 4:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [CFCDev] Mach-ii vs. Struts At 04:14 PM 6/10/2004, you wrote: >Here's my difficult position. I don't know Java well, but am moving >into a Project Management role. I want to convince others to learn >Java and hoped to do it with a CF/Struts framework. Everyone I spoke >to said Struts is too much overhead for an application. > >Anyone use struts as a learn on the job java educational tool? A lot depends on your developers' backgrounds. Are they coming from C++, or another "major" language, or are they getting their feet wet? Going the CF route provides 2 advantages: 1) You can get up and running, FAST. You can have enterprise level applications up in a fraction of the time it would take writing Java servlets. 2) Since CF is built on Java, it allows plenty of access to Java and its offerings from within CF. You get the best of both worlds with CF - easy and ROI today with the option to dig deeper when the project timetable allows for it. ---------------------------------- Alex Sherwood PHS Collection Agency THE COLLECTORS P: 813-283-4579 F: 301.664.6834 W: www.phs-net.com ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
