Ravi wrote:
in some cases, this complexity is
willful... take the current obsession with XML and building layers and
layers on top of it.
Sounds like the project I'm working on, which combines websphere, XML,
Struts, java and javascript. It has taken me a year to figure out how all
the pieces fit together. The industry has convinced itself that OO
development is like putting together preassembled parts. That may be true
for shrink-wrapped software that can re-use the same widgets, but it hardly
seems worth the effort for in-house development of typical back-office
systems like payroll, etc. I could have written the same modules in php in
1/3 the time. Unfortunately, you need java or maybe Gates's new software
for the kind of stable, multi-user systems that big organizations require.
Frankly, I don't see how you can ship this kind of work overseas since it
is so dependent on heavy user interaction. On the other hand, if you are
developing turn-key applications based on stable specifications, it might
be another story altogether.
Louis Proyect
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