Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-07-17 Thread ravi_eze
S2 is awesome by the way it modularises the things. But to me writing a valid ognl in jsp,validation layer, using value stack and debugging it is extremely difficult. The only way i do it is re-jaring, redeploying and restarting the tomcat. Moreover most of the times i do'nt understand why

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-07-16 Thread Piero Sartini
Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2008 13:43:00 schrieb Ted Husted: But why does web application still seem so difficult or so time-consuming? Are there time bandits that still suck days or weeks out of your development schedule? Are there time gremlins that nickel-and-dime you every hour of every day? Is

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-23 Thread Greg Lindholm
: [OT] What slows you down? When I read this I was being slowed down by constant stopping and starting of Tomcat from within Eclipse... - make a change in an action class - start tomcat - test it... not working - stop tomcat - make a java change - repeat In this case I

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-22 Thread Dave Newton
--- On Sat, 6/21/08, Jeromy Evans wrote: Internet Explorer +1 What a pile. Dave - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-22 Thread Antonio Petrelli
2008/6/22 Jeromy Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Internet Explorer Ok let's start a flame war: Windows, Websphere, RAD :-D Antonio - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-22 Thread Martin
Anyone else? Martin - Original Message - From: Greg Lindholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: user@struts.apache.org Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 11:01 PM Subject: Re: [OT] What slows you down? When I read this I was being slowed down by constant stopping and starting of Tomcat from within

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-22 Thread Dave Newton
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 11:01 PM Subject: Re: [OT] What slows you down? When I read this I was being slowed down by constant stopping and starting of Tomcat from within Eclipse... - make a change in an action class - start tomcat - test it... not working - stop tomcat

RE: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-21 Thread Giovanni Azua
-Original Message- From: Jim Kiley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 3:37 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT] What slows you down? Gah, I have been using MyEclipse for two years and never noticed the JSP debugger. How embarrassing. jk lol

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-21 Thread Greg Lindholm
When I read this I was being slowed down by constant stopping and starting of Tomcat from within Eclipse... - make a change in an action class - start tomcat - test it... not working - stop tomcat - make a java change - repeat In this case I was working on validation logic

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-21 Thread Jeromy Evans
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Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread Al Sutton
Web Design :). I can code it in a few days, but getting it to look pretty so that users don't complain, thats a b**ch. Seriously though, one of the things we could do is a something link Suns blueprints or a cookbook of code recepies where we have pages which show and explain the code

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread stanlick
I think a web page generator from action/model would be a huge shot in the arm. Of course it would need to be gussied up a bit, but doing these by hand is a leach on time. I recall a product back in the day that would generate pages from db tables. Perhaps it's now open source and could be

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread Antonio Petrelli
2008/6/20 Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But why does web application still seem so difficult or so time-consuming? IMHO it's the presence of too many layers of applications. For a simple thing like a search result you have to do (for example in Struts 1): - the JSP page - the DAO - the service

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread stanlick
That's pretty accurate! You know, these reoccurring cycles could be patterned into framework base classes now that Java support generics. Db4o works fine in this manner and needs no 2D mappings at all. In fact, I have a single class that handles all persistence/search behaviors for all my

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread Roger Varley
On Friday 20 June 2008 15:07:17 Al Sutton wrote: Web Design :). I can code it in a few days, but getting it to look pretty so that users don't complain, thats a b**ch. That shouldn't be my problem. I'm a developer not a graphic designer. What would be nice though, would be if it were easier

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread Dave Newton
--- On Fri, 6/20/08, Antonio Petrelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO it's the presence of too many layers of applications. +1 The most productive environment I've worked in is Lisp (and Smalltalk, I guess). Config, code, HTML, everything was generated from Lisp. I had usable IDE assistance

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread Ian Roughley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think a web page generator from action/model would be a huge shot in the arm. Of course it would need to be gussied up a bit, but doing these by hand is a leach on time. I recall a product back in the day that would generate pages from db tables. The is a company

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread Jim Kiley
With Struts 2 I've got testability right down the spine of the application. There's very little Java I can write that I can't test. And testing really does speed up your application development cycle, as I'm sure the pros here know. The stuff I can't test is what slows me down: JSP, and the gap

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread Musachy Barroso
I would have to say: people. It doesn't matter how good frameworks are, for some reason, some people decide to write their own frameworks, and they do a terrible job at it. I always land on these companies :). Some examples I have seen in my current and last company: 1. Custom MVC (makes me want

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread Dave Newton
--- On Fri, 6/20/08, Jim Kiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have a JSP debugger, and JSPs don't generate log statements (wow, wouldn't it be awesome if they could?). AFAIK they can, although I'll often just use a println. What environment are you using that you don't have a JSP debugger,

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread Jim Kiley
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Dave Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- On Fri, 6/20/08, Jim Kiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have a JSP debugger, and JSPs don't generate log statements (wow, wouldn't it be awesome if they could?). AFAIK they can, although I'll often just use a

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread Jim Kiley
Gah, I have been using MyEclipse for two years and never noticed the JSP debugger. How embarrassing. jk On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Jim Kiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Dave Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- On Fri, 6/20/08, Jim Kiley [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread Dave Newton
Gah, I have been using MyEclipse for two years and never noticed the JSP debugger. How embarrassing. *lol* I almost never use JSP debuggers, but on occasion they're *really* handy :) Dave - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread stanlick
Actually, I applaud you. If you need to debug jsp pages, you have bigger problems! On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Jim Kiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gah, I have been using MyEclipse for two years and never noticed the JSP debugger. How embarrassing. jk On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:31 AM,

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread Martin
Martin - Original Message - From: Dave Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List user@struts.apache.org Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 9:29 AM Subject: Re: [OT] What slows you down? --- On Fri, 6/20/08, Jim Kiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have a JSP debugger, and JSPs

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread Ian Roughley
) for debugging check out console out c:out http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/sandbox/doc/iterators-doc/index.html HTH Martin - Original Message - From: Dave Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List user@struts.apache.org Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 9:29 AM Subject: Re: [OT] What slows

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread Don Brown
This is an excellent question, Ted, thanks for bringing it up. At Atlassian, we've been rolling out a few new internal applications built on Grails and have been amazed how easy it can be. They take production-ready libraries like Hibernate and Spring, then tie everything together in a seamless

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread Jim Kiley
Part of what's going on for me is that Struts 2 provides me with such a large improvement in productivity over the last two Java web frameworks that I used (Struts 1 and JSF) I haven't yet gotten over my pleasure with the framework. I haven't gotten ticked off at it yet, because even when

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread Musachy Barroso
I won't comment on all this, because, I am totally biased, and it is friday after all, but here: Look to php zend framework that was it for me, lol. musachy Ok...I won't talk about the rest because I am obviously biased On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Frode T. Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread Giovanni Azua
In the context of Struts 2 and from my personal experience as a Struts framework (pure java-centric) user that does not do webapps development for a living I would have very much appreciated: 1-. A rather colorful set of Struts Blank applications where you could get out of the box: a)

RE: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread Sarr, Nathan
Let me start with I think struts 2 is great - like some of the others the size of the technology stack and UI seem to give me the most trouble as well. Some things I've had to deal with in struts 2 are: 1. The tags - I decided to not use the struts tags as I prefer to use JSTL and JSP

RE: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread Karr, David
-Original Message- From: Sarr, Nathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 10:29 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [OT] What slows you down? 2. Validation - since I'm using Yahoo User Interface Libraries (YUI) and my actions are returning JSON

RE: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread Sarr, Nathan
Hi David, That sounds great - thanks for tip. I'm going to grab the Beta release ASAP. -Nate -Original Message- From: Karr, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 1:47 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [OT] What slows you down? -Original Message

RE: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread Karr, David
Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [OT] What slows you down? Hi David, That sounds great - thanks for tip. I'm going to grab the Beta release ASAP. -Nate -Original Message- From: Karr, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 1:47 PM To: Struts Users

Re: [OT] What slows you down?

2008-06-20 Thread Neil Erdwien
I'd like to +1 the sentiment that we have too many layers and too many options for each layer. I'll resist the temptation to try to list various layers and options -- there are just too many. What I'd like to add to the discussion is the theory that there is a natural selection/evolutionary