Hi,
The 3 key arguments against wicket were:
-It will be easier to hire someone with Struts knowledge on top of the
fact that we have some in-house knowledge with it.
-Struts is the de-facto standard with a lot of
community/vendor/documentation support
-Struts seems heavy on the java-code required for things that are pretty
simple with struts
I agree that it was not a pure technology issue in the end and that the
comparison was not purely on technical capabilities. The ability to
build clean self-contained components as wicket allows was not at all
appreciated. They did not see the potential for us to build our own
custom components on top. Oddly enough that was seen as an "improper
separation of concern" because then java is used for presentation
aspects like layout. Frankly I think this is an idea that has been
manufactured by other frameworks to sell their scattered
technology/markup/syntax framework approaches.
I have dabbled with other frameworks and thought that for default
behavior it would be nice not to have a line of code per label in a
table. There was a comment that there is different handling in a
DataView. But is that true? I have used them and I had to add new
Label(...) in the populateItem() method.
anyways... what can you do... I still think wicket is a pretty dam good
framework.
thanks,
florian
Peter Thomas wrote:
> I am sad to announce that my company did not choose to use
wicket after
> comparison with struts 2. :-(
>
> One criticism that came out as we were looking at Wicket code
was that
> there seems to be a need to write a lot of Java code in a
ListView for
> such things as displaying a table. Although I did not see this
issue as
> out-weighing all the benefits, many of my colleagues did.
All I'll say is that I'm personally sure this is not about technology
- this has to be politics, and these colleagues must have already
learnt Struts2 and want to protect their investment or have the
misconception that Struts2 == Struts1. Or maybe they were swayed by
some presentation that used job search statistics to compare web ui
frameworks...
Sometimes it is a waste of time to try and convince people. Been
there done that. Just move on.
Regards,
Peter.
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