Sorry if this offends, but this post made me *really* unhappy.
On 6/21/07, paksegu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Frankly is becoming difficult for us novice to master, is there any way we can just stick to one tool, one framework that we would be able to acomplish everything in the java ee stack?
Many companies would very much like you to believe the answer to your question is "sure ... here's my XYZ framework and it will do everything you could ever want." If you like following the crowd, that's a reasonable path. If you want to believe that the authors of framework XYZ, BigCompany ABC (whatever their actual name is) does *not* know everything about what *you* need (or, more likely, doesn't care at all), then you need to take the responsibility to decide for yourself what the correct path is. Do you *really* want "one framework" in this particular use case? If so, what's the difference between that and having "one company" deciding what software you should run on your PC (or even your personal music player), or "one government" deciding what is right and what is wrong (even if your personal morality or religion teaches differently)? Or even "one viewpoint" deciding which color of skin is socially acceptable, and which should be exterminated (in the generation of my parents, this was most apparent in Europe ... but it is depressingly common in Africa today)? This may sound like hyperbole, but these viewpoints are connected. Take some responsibility for your own world view ... please! The issues are *much* more important than whether *you* have to learn one technology or many, and then choose between them. In the real world, there is *no* such thing as the "one right answer" to all problems in a particular domain -- the earlier you understand this reality, the more productive you will be in your career (because there *are* intelligent organizations, in every part of the globe, that reward clear thinking over lemming-like behavior), and the more valuable will be your contributions to your own culture, and to humanity as a whole. Craig McClanahan
