> I am just new into the world of RIA world. I want to evaluate Pivot for its > capability.
Welcome! :-) > 1- Are there any good applications in production which are using Apache Pivot? Yes. I have personally been involved in the development of several. Others on this list may also want to comment about their own experience. > 2- I am seeing that, Pivot is made using eclipse. Mostly what i am noticing > for every component i need to write the code by hand. There is no > drag and support for components like Swing. Even to the extend i can't use > some xml editor to find out what properties a particular element is > having. Is there a solution to this problem? Any DTD available? There is no GUI builder or DTD support as of yet. However, both have been discussed. See: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-30 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-385 > 3- One thing which might be needed in Pivot might be the validation support. > Is pivot providing some validation framework like struts do? If not, > can we use some apache validations API inside the pivot application to > perform the validations? I'm not a Struts expert, so I'm not sure exactly what it provides for validation. However, Pivot does include a number of classes for text validation. See the Javadoc for the org.apache.pivot.wtk.text.validation package (renamed to org.apache.pivot.wtk.validation for Pivot 1.5): http://pivot.apache.org/1.4/docs/api/org/apache/pivot/wtk/text/validation/package-summary.html > 4- Is it able to integrate with Spring and Hibernate? Yes. > 5- Do every-time if we have to use it inside the web-application, we have to > expose it as an applet? Pivot apps are deployable via the same means as Swing apps. For example, you can deploy via applet, Java web start, or via local install. You can also write your own launcher/class loader if none of those options suit you. > 6- What is the learning curve for Apache Pivot? How many days it will require > to fully understand the WTKX and start coding in it efficiently? >From my experience, new developers are generally able to work through the >tutorial in a day or two. Again, others may want to comment based on their own >experience here. Let us know if you have any additional questions. Greg
