I just wanted to say a quick thank you to the folks running JavaONE, for moving the deadline for completing our slides. Sharing a deadline with the IRS is never a good idea. :)
I'm a client-side guy, but my customers use my stuff to make webapps. So, I figured I'd check out the landscape they're facing when architecting their solutions.
Beehive
Cocooon
Echo
EJB
Hibernate
iBatis
JDO
JSF
Keel
Maverick
SiteMesh
Spring
Struts
Tapestry
Tiles
Velocity
WebWork
WebObjects
Wicket
Whoa. And I'm sure I'm just scratching the surface.
I suppose it's an indication of just how awry...
In working on my JavaONE presentation, I got to thinking about why frameworks such as the NetBeans Platform and Eclipse RCP are important. It's really because, if they didn't exist, we'd all end up rewriting them, anyway.
Every project I've ever worked on started out as a dedicated application, with a very simple architecture. Then, as features are added, and they don't fit nicely into what I...
