Great post! Jocke
2010/6/23 Blessed Geek <blessedg...@gmail.com> > Looking at your annotation, I find that I have to learn yet another > language. > I mean learning the annotation style as a language. > > UiBinder is in XML and if you are familiar with XML, it's a breeze to > understand what's going on. > > For the many many years doing distributed computing in industrial > environment - I find the unfortunate situation that data come in many > formats. There are log sheets that each vendor equipment invented with > their own respective formats. Frequently, the same equipment maker > willy-nilly comes out with a slight variation just because they have a > new line of models. Some are text, some are XML. if you do not strive > to be familiar with XML, you don't get to work. > > So, every time I need to write a data loader for a piece of equipment, > should I have complained to management - I have to learn another > language, sir/maam? > > Moreover, databases I encountered are of differing schemata of course. > Getting familiarized with an XML schema is similar to encountering yet > another database schema. I am personally guilty of inventing more > database and XML schemata (the plural for schema is schemata, > http://h2g2java.blessedgeek.com/2010/03/data-is-already-plural.html) > and adding to the plethora of "new languages" people who worked with > me had to learn. > > For those of us who've had the misfortune of having to frequently work > with deciphering new XML and database schemata, which in your sense - > frequently having to learn new languages, UiBinder comes as natural as > mother tongue. So my condolences that you find UiBinder difficult for > you due to your less exposure to XML. It is indeed an unfortunate > situation that the people who came out with UiBinder did not take into > consideration that not all people are familiar with XML or are > resonant to data schemata. After all, UiBinder inventors probably made > a high presumption that every and any one using GWT has an industrial > purpose to using it. > > Fortunately for me, and to your undue inconvenience (my apologies > again), there must be a lot of programmers out there who are like- > minded with me about the convenience of UiBinder due to our > inexplicable and mysterious bias towards XML. I think it is safe for > me to say that I am representative of those appreciative of UiBinder - > that our tacit complain are the following mysteries: Having invented > such a wonderous framework, > > - why did the UiBinder inventors forgot about the need to provide a > means to register custorm parsers? > - why did they not realise the extreme inconvenience of not being able > extend Uibinderable classes properly? > > Once these two issues are settled - hmmm ... there seems to be no > bounds to what my enthusiasm could do with UiBinder. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-web-toolkit%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
