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! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
