Hi Martin,

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On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Martin Grigorov <mgrigo...@apache.org>wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Andrew Schetinin <ascheti...@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > In our case, we had to implement the second option, suitable for our
> needs
>
> Can you explain what do you mean by "suitable for our needs" ?
> From your message above this phrase it seems RAD/CRUD are something
> universal that will fit any needs. But then you say _our needs_ ...
>

We have a pretty basic framework that allows defining an edit form logic in
Java without touching any HTML, and the HTML is generated automatically
from common blocks.
The idea is basic and universal, but the implementation is relatively
tightly coupled with the back-end, and making it more generic (or even
open-sourcing it) requires significant efforts - not something we can do at
this stage.

This is the reason why there are no such at the moment. Or at least not
> widely used.
>

That's right - it requires a lot of efforts to maintain any framework. From
the other side - consider Rails and Grails - they do have to have RAD GUI
and they are very successful mostly because of that fact.

  - http://isis.apache.org/ (see it Wicket Viewer) (very well maintained. I

> have no information how many users it has)
>

I considered this one for one of the last projects, but found its
documentation lacking, and decided it is not enough supported.


> Then you will figure out that Ruby/Groovy performance is not that good and
> you will have to reimplement your prototype with something else ...
>
>
Well, that's a holy war topic :-) I better will not touch it :-)

Regards,

Andrew

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Andrew Schetinin

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