> (To be fair, in Java that will be three separate files for every > function, plus a big honkin' EJB library and an XML > configuration file. > And they will love it, too.) lol -- interesting idea of "fair". Many of the java MVC frameworks are not all that different from CA in the amount of config/code you'd need to create a dataprovider. ;-)
OT -- one of the slicker impl that I've seen is how Macromedia does things... you configure a service (admittedly in a big honkin' XML file <grin>) that points to a method of a plain old object. Done. The UI can then automagically grab data from the object, using a friendly name "WidgetDataThingy". And of course, the Rails folks probably don't configure freakin' anything... they just add a ":remote" or something oh so simple to them and oh so arcane to anyone else, whisper, "fly little data packet, fly" and magically Ruby makes the packets dance across the wire. <grin> Cheers, Timo --------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cgiapp&r=1&w=2 To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
