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Swing/JSP Compatiblity
Has any project given serious interest to developing a standard to allow client and web based versions for JSP and Swing. The current frameworks (struts, spring) actually push more work on the developer for the front-end then supporting multi-client environments. Our XML configuration seem targeted towards the server and persistence layers. Without a true standard at the HTML and desktop client level we will still remain bound to manual writing or rewriting code. I recommend Sun takes some of the lead on this to combat one of .NET's key strength and to keep the maintainability of our code for future iterations. —
Re: Another plea for better error messages
Indeed, a test suite of typical beginner's messages would be a good thing. (A couple of days ago, I wasted two hours with inscrutable stack traces because I kept pointing my browser to localhost:8080/index.jsp instead of localhost:8080/index.faces. Surely I wasn't the first and only idiot who ever did this...) But there is a more sinister issue. The error reporting in GlassFish (and, I am sure, Hibernate) is fundamentally deficient. The GlassFish (and Hibernate and ... and ...) developers think they are doing a great and wonderful thing if they launch an exception or write a log message. They are not. Imagine for a minute if the Java compiler worked like that. Every time you have a syntax error, the compiler would simply die with an exception, or it would deposit a logging message into a log file. It would take you forever to get your programs compiled. Compiler writers know that errors are to be expected. Human errors are normal things, and not exceptions. Compiler writers make an effort to report errors that humans can understand, and to keep going to find more errors. —
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