Dreamweaver support would be excellent. > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 12:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [OS-webwork] WebWork/2 Tool Support... > > > Yeah, I hear you guys - WebWork's simplicity was what > attracted me to it at first. That's why I wanted to determine > what the user community's needs are before spending the > additional time and effort to make the kind of stuff I'm > working on universally usable. > > Even though WebWork is pretty simple to use, my main reason > for using code generation is productivity. The way I look at > it, I'm going to manually create my Hibernate mapping files > anyway but why not have a tool that will generate my POJOs, > DAOs, WebWork Actions & JSPs from my mapping files (Sorry, > I've caught the code generation bug)? Sure, I could easily > write all that stuff manually but generating it makes it > consistent and easy to modify on a global scale as well as > simple to rapidly prototype an application. Believe me, I was > wishing I had already written my JSP generator when the > quoting syntax had changed for the UI tags a while ago, it > would have saved me a lot of manual updates. > > While typing this reply, I noticed Francisco's response as > well - seems that the consensus is (so far) it can't get much > easier than it already is. Let me throw out another idea I > have that I forgot to mention in my initial post. I don't > know if we have any Dreamweaver users out there but a visual > design tool it pretty useless with custom UI tags. I noticed > that the Sophia framework has extended Dreamweaver to be able > to use their custom UI tags and have them display in > Dreamweaver as if they were native HTML tags. Do any of you > WebWork users out there use Dreamweaver and wish you had this > functionality? > > If I'm the only one who thinks any of this stuff might be > useful, it's probably because I have a little extra time on > my hands and I'm looking for an itch to scratch. ;-) If > that's the case, I'm ok with that and have a few other > non-WebWork related ideas in my queue that I could spend my > extra cycles on. Either way, please continue to let me know > your thoughts on this subject. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Jason Carreira > > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 7:41 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [OS-webwork] WebWork/2 Tool Support... > > > > Yes, please keep messages on this list. I'm all for tools to > > make things easy, so go for it and I'll help where I can. I > > agree with Hani that one of the main reasons for the lack of > > tools has been that it's not annoying enough when doing the > > config setup to make someone want to build them :-) The same > > goes for Xdoclet support. It's about as complicated to add > > Xdoclet tags as it is to just add the configuration. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Hani Suleiman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 9:21 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] WebWork/2 Tool Support... > > > > > > > > > I think that for now at least, this traffic might as well > > stay on this > > > list. If a significant portion ends up being a discussion of the > > > peculiarities of particular tools/extensions, then we can > > worry about > > > splitting off the list. > > > > > > Secondly, one of the reasons that there traditionally > > hasn't been such > > > a strong demand for tools to make life easier (pretty much > > non in ww1 > > > and very few in ww2) is the simplicity of configuration, which has > > > always been a big goal of both projects I believe. You > > don't need to > > > be an expert or even particularly bright to be up and running and > > > happily adding new views and so on, so fewer people end up > > thinking 'I > > > wish there were a tool to make this easier' > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. > Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it > help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help > YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ > _______________________________________________ > Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork >
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