Ted,
> Hey! What's Clarion doing about Java these days? Once upon a time, I
> was Secretary of the CUG hereabouts.
>
At first I was going to reply privately, but actually there may be
something of interest here for Clarion developers and (some) Struts
developers.
For those not familiar with Clarion, it's a Windows application
development environment with some pretty useful template-driven code
generation technology. Although Clarion is pretty much only used for
generating code in the Clarion language, there are a lot of
possibilities for generating code in other languages. Back in '96 I
wrote some templates to generate Java code, but they were fairly
primitive.
In 1999 at the Florida DevCon TopSpeed announced that Java was their
language of choice for multi-tier, distributed applications, and
Clarion would stay their language of choice for client/server. But
their internet vision was unclear, and they eventually split into
SoftVelocity (Bob Zaunere, pres, Clarion technologies) and Sensium
(Arthur Barrington, consulting, web). SoftVelocity has focused on
restoring some stability to the Clarion product. AFAIK they're more
likely to go C# than Java because it would be an easier migration path.
OTOH I think Clarion generating Struts code could be a powerful tool.
One of the problems discussed here is the necessity of creating a bean
for each form. Clarion excels at generating that kind of stuff. I've
pointed Struts out to SV but they're still a new company and they have
their hands full.
Of course, there's nothing stopping anyone from writing their own
templates to do this, assuming you use Windows as your development
platform, and can afford a copy of Clarion.
Dave
Dave Harms
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