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Past: Some years back when i coded some projects in a widely unknown 4GL language called "Magic" (what a name), i was depressed about being in a development environment where everything was thought out (or not) from the tool vendor. It was kind of a black box. You coded your GUI and business logic in a quite strange way but you were blazing fast... as long as everything you wanted was kind of "standard". If not, the trouble started...
Today: With "do it yourself" i mean chosing the frameworks you like and glue the stuff together. Currently i chose frameworks like Spring, Struts2, YUI, OpenJPA and make them work together. This is a viable way but its definitely the hardest route you can go, because you have to think about a lot of issues not solved for you or solved in a way not usable anymore. For example if i really wanna do Ajax, Struts2 validation and forms stuff doesnt help me much anymore.
On the other hand, people recommend using a full features Ajax webapp framework like Echo3 or Google Web Toolkit. But when looking at these frameworks i got those feelings from the past. A more or less highly intrusive framework with strict development routes if you want to benefit from it. Goodbye freedom, welcome productivity. And this is the bottom line. What do you want. At the moment i am still thinking that freedom is a good thing which also means more creativity.
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