That has to be the most disturbing use of annotations I have ever seen... on so many levels...
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:52 AM, jocke eriksson <jock...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >> 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. > -- 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.
