Hello All, my name is Stephane. I've been a java programmer for 12 years now. I never liked web programming as I found web frameworks mostly bloated and encumbered by html-stateless/server stuff (I tested tapestry and struts). So I just stopped learning web programming 5 years ago and thought I would let things evolve and come back to the web when programming would be easier, more object oriented, more intellectually attractive indeed. I mostly considered web programming as a step backward in UI programming, mainly due to technologies that were never intended to do what we now want them to do...
And last 3 weeks I spent quite a lot of time testing the Apache click framework. I discovered that people from Apache click addressed mostly all my concerns and found that Apache click is a wonderful component oriented web framework. In the last 3 weeks I could learn click and build a pretty complicated application (people, activities, participation, management application). So I just write my first email to this mailing list to say you how I love your work, I appreciate tremendously your efforts. It did change the way I understand web programming and I know love that. (and also love JPA, almost for the same reasons, but that's another topic). So thank you all for your great great work. Click is just smashing. I hope to provide you with more feed back on a couple of stuff during the next weeks or so. Can I suggest new components or feature enhancements here ? Stéphane
