btw I like the pattern application wizards in Together - they realy save time (ok, stone me :) I think that later IntelliJ guys could publish an open API for external tools interacting with the already parsed source tree.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Benoit Menendez Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 10:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Eap-features] EJB wizard Who cares about wizards when you have a great ant integration... Just select the deploy target in your ant script... This is way more flexible... Benoit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wangjammer5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 6:26 AM Subject: Re: [Eap-features] EJB wizard > > > That's the general consensus here, except for the odd netbeans/jbuilder > > reject who tries to turn IDEA into those bloated tools! (just > > kidding...mostly) > > Plus in my experience, wizards are great for newbies but in the end you > always have to throw them away if you get into any kind of advanced > program or need to actually UNDERSTAND what you are doing ;-) > > I've seen so many "programmers" who can't do anything without their > wizards. It makes me fear for the quality of software all over the world > :( > > ...one example - a guy was taking over from me on a complicated and messy > Delphi contract (thankfully patching other peoples' Delphi is in my past > now <g>) and I was showing him around the code during the cross-over > period. I was talking about the virtual methods used in some of the > classes... and he asked me what a virtual method was. I tried to > explain... but his eyes glazed over and I saw he didn't understand a > thing about OO. That software was doomed! I could see on his CV that he > used Wizards and code helpers for everything (he mentioned them all in > his CV) and warned the guys but did they listen? > > Cheers > > > > _______________________________________________ > Eap-features mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features _______________________________________________ Eap-features mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features _______________________________________________ Eap-features mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features
