----- Original Message ----- Da : Kfir Shay <[email protected]> A : [email protected] Oggetto : Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Why is Netbeans > Eclipse? Data : Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:21:57 -0500
> I heard about this obscure app called Gmail that uses > HTTP/HTML/JavaScript, word on the street is that it works > pretty well for a set of hacks ;) Well, yes it's a set of hacks. :-) In the end, unfortunately I have to say that the fact that a thing works doesn't imply it is well designed: this statement is drawn from my experience, having seen tons of industrial systems in banks, trade exchanges, telcos, real time telemetry systems, industrial control processes and whatever, all of them "working" and most of them with a lot of hacks in some part of the system. I don't use GMail, because I think it's crazy to put all my email in Google's hands (but this is another point). I don't think that its success is due to the particular technology, rather to Google big power in pushing its solutions because they are fashionable (not by chance I say that Google is XXI century Microsoft - of course, their technology is anyway much superior to Microsoft's). I also see that in order to having it work properly, they had to introduce Gears, which - yes - is another hack to the concept of webapp. I think that if Adobe were interested in the same core business, they could have done it with Flex. > And if your backend is scalable and done right than you > get the best of both worlds Yes, and here Google has got the supremacy of course, but I think it's not relevant to the rest of the discussion. You can plug any kind of client technology on a scalable back end. > > Fabrizio did you try to use a desktop mail client with 6k > (~2.5GB) messages in your inbox... why won't you do that > on your desktop and tell its better than Gmail At the moment I have 2.5k messages in my inbox with Thunderbird (my fault, it's not a tidy management of email if you have so many in inbox, but that's another matter) and other mailboxes with more than 10k emails (e.g. the Wicket one). It works, and it doesn't sound slow, what's the problem? :-) There are other implementation details of Thunderbird that I don't like. -- f.g. -- Fabrizio Giudici, Ph.D. - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/blog [email protected] - mobile: +39 348.150.6941 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en.
