On Jul 23, 2008, at 13:19 , Alex Objelean wrote:
I've recently found this post on dzone: http://java.dzone.com/news/this-time-last-year This time last year ... What is your oppinion about this?
In short, I could compare (partially) it with my feelings about Apple. I was so excited when I abandoned Windows for Mac OS X, but after four years Mac OS X is not up to my expectations; but I consider it still the best of competitors (the parallel stops here: today I'd happily leave Mac OS X and Apple if I could, but I can't; while I'm not willing to abandon Wicket).
The v1 of my most strategic web project (a direct customer) has been developed in Wicket (1.3), and now I'm working on v2, which will be developed on Wicket of course. The thing that really frustrates me is the fact you're forcing me to use serializable objects, even if I don't need to (and when I go with clustering, I'll use Terracotta). But I'm confident I'll find some design work-around on that. Also, I appreciated Wicket for its simplicity and control put in my hands in comparison with JSF; but I must say that after two years, I think the simplicity thing is still true, but not to the extent I expected.
Given that, I'm still involved in other technologies such as JSF (consulting for customers) and in the comparison Wicket wins hands down. A point worth to be noted, though, is that I was surprised how productive some people is with JSF and the NetBeans Visual Designer, even people that I discovered is not proficient with Java at all (please note that while I'm a member of the NetBeans Dream Team, so you bet I'm a NetBeans enthusiast, I never use JSF and the NetBeans Visual Designer when I make the decision on the framework ant the tool).
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