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Re: Review - Everyday Scripting with Ruby: For Teams, Testers, and You

Vladimir Sizikov — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:21:06 GMT

Thanks for the review, will check out the book. From your description, it does seem as a worthy candidate to read. :)

Re: Google Maps API: Adding Where to Your Applications

Scott Davis — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 23:22:57 GMT

Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed the article. Cheers -s

Re: JSF... My post-JavaOne impressions.

Tor Norbye — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:51:35 GMT

Re: the developer works article by Hightower: He only makes the case that JSF without WYSIWYG is better than the older frameworks, not that WYSIWYG development with JSF isn't better than without it. Re: tools: The tool I would advocate would be Creator (given that I work on it). It doesn't have to be an either/or decision; use the right tool for the right job. If you limit your options to Eclipse and its plugins you are missing out on a number of facilities available in other tools. But I don't want to start a religious IDE war here. I wanted to make the point that JSF is great for tools, and you can get a lot more productive using JSF with a tool built for it. Good night and good luck.

Re: JSF... My post-JavaOne impressions.

Scott Stirling — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:41:45 GMT

Wow, you guys touting tools, to which tools are you referring? Nitrox, MyEclipse and Exadel are the only ones I know of that support JSF. (Oh, and Sun's JavaStudio Creator, like we're all going to download that and switch off between it and Eclipse). The MyEclipse stuff was buggy as hell just a couple months back. I haven't tried Exadel since their Struts tool always crashed when I tried to edit a large struts-config.xml. And I can't seem to get Nitrox to send me an evaluation license since they got bought by BEA. What I need, and JSF needs I argue, is a free or cheap Eclipse plugin along the lines of Tapestry's Spindle. Get with it. Sun will drag out this JSF thing forever like they did the JSTL (years!!) and you'll never see a great tool in time for when JSF is being EOL'ed for something else in 2-3 years.