(I'm not Gary, but I've been recently introduced to Spring, so I think I'll chime in.)
You can't put down Eclipse lightly, though. Eclipse's java development tools are light years ahead of any of the CF tools (imho). It has knowledge of the language and it's classes, does the autocomplety things that people like, has wizards and what not. Some parts are a little esoteric, but it's easy to ignore what you don't need, and slowly pick up new features. Spring has also been an absolute pleasure to work with. Everything (DAOs, autowiring, MVC, even a scheduler for crying out loud) that made the slight overhead of learning it worthwhile. Speaking of, learning it was easy, the documentation was great to the point that I have not yet had to ask a single question on a forum or a mailing list. (Have searched archives though). I have tried to learn various cf frameworks, during various phases of maturity, but have walked away frustrated each time, so it was a pleasant surprise to that a java framework, (yes, that language about which everyone pisses and moans about being 'too hard') was easy to pick up even after about 3 or 4 years of not doing any active java development. This is one of the things that frustrated me the most about CF... java had all these really cool tools, but even though CF is build on top of java, these tools were always for some odd reason just out of reach. Hibernate, iBatis, things that Could Make Life Easy... always just out of reach... and now with Spring... it takes only a few lines of XML to get it all working. Barry Beattie wrote: > SIDE NOTE: > > to emphesise Gary's credentials... he, his co-workers and the company > he works for have supported the CF community and CFUG here in Brisbane > for a long, long while. > > In the past he has been willing to lead by example, to back his > committment and support with action. IMHO, his comments don't come > lightly. > > > > Gary, are you willing to comment on developer tools and set-ups > comparing Java development to CF? Sure, Eclipse is a common thread, > but that's only the part of the story, yes? > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
