Good luck...I've dabbled with Seam and it (very cursory day and half
of poking around) seemed more tied to JSF than I was willing to dive
into myself.  So I'm curious to hear about how hooking GWT up to it
goes...

Later,
Shaffer

On Jan 12, 3:46 pm, dannydog <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been doing Java development for over 10 years. Every year it
> becomes more complicated and convoluted and less pleasurable. As I
> apply for contracts I am presented with the following requirements:
> Spring
> Struts
> Hibernate
> TopLink
> J2EE (and the 15 components that come with it that no recruiter can
> possibly understand)
> Websphere and all of the 27 add-ons that come with it
> Eclipse
> MyEclipse
> YourEclipse
> TheirEclipse
> DOM
> JDom
> XDom
> XML
> XSL
> XSLT
> XPath
> XHTML
> XXX (used for Adult Sites)
> SOA
> Soap
> HandSoap
> Agile (sorry but experience with XP doesn't count)
> JAVA EE 5
> EJB 3
> EJB - Session  Beans, Message Beans, Entity Beans, Refried XBeans
> Weblogic
> Tomcat
> HTML
> Ajax
> Javascript
> Flex
> JSF
> JSP
> Tag Libraries
> Oracle
> MS SQL Server
> SQL Server
> MySQL
> DBA
> Stored Procedures
> Refactoring
> Design patterns I've never heard of (and I've read the Gang of Twelve
> book).
>
> And then there's all of the PHP stuff that I don't care about but are
> 'nice to have'.
>
> And OF COURSE you must have AT LEAST 6 months experience with each of
> them. So, in my mind, this is total insanity and I'm sick of it.
>
> I'm between assignments at this time. I have Seam In Action and GWT In
> Practice and 20 other Java  books for reference. I also want to use
> REST when it's possible as well as JUnit and TextNG (with Seam),
> Tomcat and Derby (and of course the requisite CSS). That's it.
> Shouldn't that be enough for one human being?
>
> Seam and GWT seem to be two up and coming technologies. I may  be
> wrong and out of work for awhile but you have to draw the line
> someplace, right? Flex is compelling but I think it's a fad. I don't
> want to have to become a JavaScript expert - I've never liked it. It's
> implementation is usually totally disorganized and the language has a
> tendency to blow up in your face for no comprehensible reason.
>
> After careful consideration of all of the above I may be wrong in my
> choices. I plan to start a blog to share my experiences.
>
> Wish me luck!
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