.NET and Struts...

[Craig Tataryn]

Hi all, I just wanted to give an observation and perhaps propose another "ToDo".  I recently attended a ".NET roadshow" seminar in Minneapolis (btw: not worth the money, just buy a book and read it, all the instructors did was read the slides to us).   Anyway, the thing I got the most out of was when they were displaying the features of Visual Studio 7.0.  Specifically when creating "Web Forms".  You basically create a form like you normally would for a windows application, except that the controls you select from are html controls.  You then go about coding your events like you would a normal form.   The IDE would then compile your application and create an ASPX page that displayed your form and a class file that would be used to handle events on the form (on the server side).  So the compilier actually generates javascript code which will make calls out to the server when things like the "lostFocus" even happens on a text box, or the "Click" event happened on a button.   Now people were really impressed with the fact that you could just code this program like you would a normal "VB" form, putting statements in event hanlders like "Text1.text = Text2.text" and have the view (the ASPX rendered HTML) display the changes.  Now struts already does this type of binding for us (i.e myForm.text1 = myForm.text2), all we are missing is the nice GUI that allows us to "forget" we are writing a web application.   I know JBuilder has extenisbility objects to allow you to hook into the IDE, does anyone here have exprience coding the JBuilder object model?    I think this would make a good TODO because it allows "average" users the ability to create struts web apps without having to know too much about servlets, thus bringing struts to a wider audience.   Let me know what you think.   <tataryn:craig/>