Re: cocoon migrate from 2.1 to 2.2 or 3 (was Re: Forms and maps)

2012-04-18 Thread Mika M Lehtonen
Ouh, I didn't realize what kind of the avalanche of arguments I would start. Maybe this tells that there is something bubbling under. I don't want to hurt anyones feelings. I don't want bad blood. I think there are so many different level persons involved in this, that it will cause some misun

cocoon migrate from 2.1 to 2.2 or 3 (was Re: Forms and maps)

2012-04-18 Thread Thorsten Scherler
The whole thread had changed the subject a long time ago ... On 04/18/2012 03:29 PM, Mark H. Wood wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:34:26AM +0200, Derek Hohls wrote: It all depends on your environment and the "rate of change". There are many back-end systems (running on old but reliable technol

RE: Forms and maps

2012-04-18 Thread Robby Pelssers
Although I don't think this mailing list is the appropriate list to discuss these kinds of issues I will post my final word on this. Just like we all use Java (at least the ones working with Cocoon) most of us should be fair to admit that Java's progress is heavily been slowed down by trying to

Re: Forms and maps

2012-04-18 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:34:26AM +0200, Derek Hohls wrote: > It all depends on your environment and the "rate of change". There are > many back-end systems (running on old but reliable technology) that > hardly change at all. However, the web (and now tablets/mobile) has a > very high rate of ch

Re: Forms and maps

2012-04-18 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:54:40AM +0200, Thorsten Scherler wrote: > On 04/18/2012 11:24 AM, m...@digikartta.net wrote: [snip] > > Half of us would be out of jobs? > > jeje actually that is point of view. I know of colleagues that maintain > some buggy developments and earn a good living. The pro

Re: Forms and maps

2012-04-18 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:30:58AM +0200, Robby Pelssers wrote: > You should read this article 'Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb' > http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2005-08-24-n14.html > > I think it's not so much about losing our jobs but about > - trying to become more productive (gettin

RE: Forms and maps

2012-04-18 Thread mika
Yep, this fits for the theories and it holds true mostly. But.. it depends on the stakeholders you are dealing with. If you are building apps and services for others or for production anyways, there's no point on using beta code and in no case, alpha. Also there is no point of choosing the lat

RE: Forms and maps

2012-04-18 Thread Robby Pelssers
Well, I also have a pretty strong opinion about the remark you make now. Let's first make the distinction between - innovators (people who are always trying to improve the way of working themselves --> E.g. Reinhard Poetz who started C3) - early adapters (people who see clear benefits i

Re: Forms and maps

2012-04-18 Thread Thorsten Scherler
On 04/18/2012 11:24 AM, m...@digikartta.net wrote: Absolutely. But trying to stay on the edge of the trends won't fit for us all. And continous rewriting of apps doesn't make any sense. Why on earth we can't create something that would last at least a decade? jeje, I actually know about some

Re: Forms and maps

2012-04-18 Thread mika
Torsten, I understand your points. Still, it depends on what are trying to achieve, how much do you have time for it and what are your skills and competence. Also, from the point of the business view, there is a concept of opportunity costs. It may be reasonable to go on with the old framework

RE: Forms and maps

2012-04-18 Thread mika
That's a good one! - mika - On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:30:58 +0200, Robby Pelssers wrote: You should read this article 'Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb' http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2005-08-24-n14.html I think it's not so much about losing our jobs but about - trying to become more p

Re: Forms and maps

2012-04-18 Thread Thorsten Scherler
On 04/18/2012 07:58 AM, m...@digikartta.net wrote: Ciao Alberto, you'll probably right. What comes to Cocoon lifecycle, I don't get it. Has C3 anything in common with C2 except the concept of pipelines? Can you do the same things with it? When C2.2 was published, I fell off the wagon because

RE: Forms and maps

2012-04-18 Thread Derek Hohls
Mika It all depends on your environment and the "rate of change". There are many back-end systems (running on old but reliable technology) that hardly change at all. However, the web (and now tablets/mobile) has a very high rate of change (and expectation of change). The point here is that by u

RE: Forms and maps

2012-04-18 Thread Robby Pelssers
You should read this article 'Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb' http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2005-08-24-n14.html I think it's not so much about losing our jobs but about - trying to become more productive (getting more done in the same amount of time) - avoiding repetitive work The

RE: Forms and maps

2012-04-18 Thread mika
Absolutely. But trying to stay on the edge of the trends won't fit for us all. And continous rewriting of apps doesn't make any sense. Why on earth we can't create something that would last at least a decade? Half of us would be out of jobs? - mika - On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:50:37 +0200, gelo

RE: Forms and maps

2012-04-18 Thread gelo1234
I totally agree with Robby's opinion. The trend is to use HTML5 on the client side in case of Web apps. Greetings, Greg 18-04-2012 10:27, "Robby Pelssers" napisaƂ(a): > Just my 2 cents on this topic... > > Cocoon forms was at the time in my eyes a pretty awesome solution to build > highly dynami

Re: Forms and maps

2012-04-18 Thread gelo1234
Hello, I would like to share my opinion on C3. I think that dropping support for the most of native Cocoon components is a good step forward. As you see trends now in enterprise applications, everybody from RedHat to Oracle limits the amount of code from bare application server core engine making

RE: Forms and maps

2012-04-18 Thread Robby Pelssers
Just my 2 cents on this topic... Cocoon forms was at the time in my eyes a pretty awesome solution to build highly dynamic forms with support for continuations. But as we all know this puts considerable strain on the server side. Gradually we started seeing a tendency towards AJAX (XmlHttpRequ