On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Jay Walters wrote:
> You guys wouldn't want to hear my stories... suffice it to say I agree that
> if you can't understand to edit the properties files by hand you probably
> shouldn't be editing them with a GUI...
That's a much different assertion than "there shoouldn't be a
GUI". After all, people who understand the files need to edit them too.
> It can be a checkbox on a feature list though and sometimes that is
> important (even though it feels wrong!-)
I disagree. While I can certainly edit XML by hand, it's not
necessarily fun to unpack the JAR, edit the file, put it back in, try to
deploy it, see what syntax errors I've made, unpack the JAR, edit the
file...
There are a couple of nice things about a GUI. It does all the
validation for you, so you don't have to worry about syntax. It links up
all the JBoss elements to the corresponding ejb-jar.xml elements so you
don't have to worry about forgetting a single bean or cmp field or
whatever. It gives you help on the individual elements, so if you forget
what some specific obscure setting means, you don't have to look it up
elsewhere. And it can make it really fast to convert from one EJB server
to another.
Why would you *want* to edit your XML by hand?
Aaron
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