On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, William G. Thompson, Jr. wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Barney Dalton wrote:
>
> > >
> > > That is why we use the Dash model to do some things at Clear Ink. Designers
> > > come in and give us mockups (valid html) for the site based on a functional
> > > specification document that has been reviewed by both the engineers and the
> > > designers. Once the engineers have the design of the site in hand, they then
> > > code up the html using ECS and make the web application functional following
> > > the Dash model. This has worked extremely well for us for almost 2 years
> >
> > So what happens 6 months down the track when the 'designers' want a new
> > look? Presumably you have to recode/recompile? With templates you can just
> > edit the html. I guess in the future more of this will be handled by CSS,
> > but you can't rely on that for the moment.
> >
>
> How to have your cake and eat it too? One URL, http://www.enhydrya.org
>
> With enhydra's XMLC technology, standard HTML pages which designers create
> are automatically compiled to a DOM which the programmers can then tweak
> on the backend. So you get the best of templates (designers create
> interface seperately with standard HTML) and Dash (programmers get real
> objects they can work with).
>
> 6 months down the track a designer can give the site a whole new skin and
> nothing on the backend need be changed.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill Thompson
>
I also have to agree with this assessment. We've been using XMLC for the
past couple of months and believe it to be wonderful. We prototype using
html, but the compiler gives us the java object we need in order to do
nice object oriented manipulations in our servlets. I give my highest
recommendation for enhydra's XMLC.
Now, if only enhydra supported the servlet API 2.x and EJB's ;)
- Rocky
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