These are good words, Johan; I'll try to factor them into the revamped Isis site.
Thx Dan On Wednesday, 23 November 2011, Johan Andries wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Mike Burton > <[email protected]<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > Hi Dan, > > > >>Marketing message > > I think Isis' real strength is prototyping the domain model, the auto-UI > is more important as an enabler for this than as a general UI generator. > > I would not underestimate the value of the auto UI generation or more > generally the naked objects pattern. I guess a typical project team > spends 65% of the effort on the UI (model/view/controller) and the > service layer around the (anemic) domain objects. There are many IT > organisations that are getting slowed down more and more by a huge > legacy code base (be it Cobol, RPG or Oracle Forms with lots of > PL/SQL) and replacing this old stuff (either gradually or in a big > bang scenario) is a risky and costly thing for a CIO. > > Now the UI generated by Isis will be a little bit unusual, but so are > the UIs on mainframes or Oracle Forms. At least with Apache Isis you > have the possibility to replace the auto-generated UI step-by-step > where it hurts the most. A fraction of the time you gain by the > automated UIs can be invested in decent domain modeling, which in turn > will pay off in the long run. > > Johan. >
