Hi, I've used some of the frameworks you've mentioned and I'm really new to FarCry but here is my take.
I like FarCry for the most part because of the CMS plugin. I like the webtop a lot and I caFarCry has been touted as a Framework for application development but it seems to take a different approach as a framework for building applications, not a bad approach by any means, just different in my opinion. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:36 AM, James Buckingham <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi there, > > Happy New Year to everyone :-). > > We've just been sent a rather large spec for a rebuild of one of our > existing applications. > > We're going to need to do some extensive work in this on both the > front and backend with things plugged up to a few databases, stored > procedures etc. but as things stand the code is just pure spaghetti so > it's time to look at moving things into a framework. > > As we're doing our new website in FarCry and because it's advertised > as a Web Framework our initial instincts are to say we go with FC. > However I wanted to throw the cat amongst the pigeons and ask other > people, who have probably used FarCry more than me, what are the > pros / cons of using FarCry over other application frameworks like > ColdBox, Model-Glue etc. > > What would make you say "Ok FarCry is good for X,Y & Z but really in > order to do this project I'm going to need to look at this from a > different approach". > > My view - > > FarCry takes the approach of giving you the tools that allow you to > setup / manipulate the black box which is core to suit your project. > In some sense that's a good thing because it gives you a decent > platform to work up from and build your custom content within. However > if things, for whatever reason, need to go outside those tools > (external datasources mixed with FarCry content, storing of temporary > data etc.) then I can see us maybe having management issues here. > > The other application frameworks act as basic "template" to help > organise your business logic, HTML etc. in a standardised way. It > leaves it up to you to organise the rest of it. So greater flexibility > but the starting point is a blank canva so no webtop, database > management etc. so obviously more work intially to get it up and > running. > > I'm find though that there is more community support for the > application frameworks than FarCry. For example, I know that we're > going to need to do some quite complex form wizards for this > application yet I don't really know where to find tutorials for say > "Creating basic / advanced custom frontend forms using FarCry Core > Tags". It tends to be that you need to look at the existing code in > the plugins / core to work it out. > > Anyway talked enough, would be good to get your feedback on this :-) > > Cheers, > James > > -- > You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google > group. > To post, email: [email protected] > To unsubscribe, email: > [email protected]<farcry-dev%[email protected]> > For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev > -------------------------------- > Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry >
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