Several disjointed thoughts here, bear with me: I was looking at a product called radpage.
http://www.radpage.com (kind of a web based IDE/RAD that eliminates: code, build/deploy, refresh ) I think it is worth taking a look at. It would be very cool if this could be done in JSPs, perhaps using DBforms as the underlying structure. It uses a concept of self-editing JSPs. I am very much into RADs. Also, open symphony has a cool idea called richtags. http://www.opensymphony.com I think it would be neat to make dbforms be able to backend with EJBs...perhaps declaring interceptors as session beans and instead of tables, using CMP beans. I like the idea of the Dbforms RAD system. Of course, hand editing XSLT to make a pretty front end is harder than it looks to me. Does anyone here have any experience making a very custom look with the XSLT or have something they want to show off using the generator? Tell me what you think of these projects in terms of strengths and weaknesses. I have a full blown dbforms application right now....I really like it but it is becoming very complex and customized right now. I have DBCP with JNDI working with dbforms now too. Is there going to be a website, cvs update? In O/S, if someone is going to take off, they should pass on the keys to someone...or allow a mirror to come up. Anyone have a mirror with newer source? I think this project needs to get more inputs in the source and then we can debug if needed. Anyhow, bottom line is that I am really looking for more updates to dbforms or anything to improve/make it easier for developers. I'm not comparing dbforms with these other projects, I'm hoping to inspire by showing off ideas we can borrow and perhaps implement. I would also like to contribute. There seems to be a "barrier" to getting involved. I like seeing the 11/12 messages a day regarding how tos but also hoping to see more development. Anyone have a comment on that? ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0002en _______________________________________________ DbForms Mailing List http://www.wap-force.net/dbforms
