W4T from Innoopract

From: Greg Ofiesh (gregofiesh_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/24/04

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    I came across a new Java development tool called W4T from a german
    company Innoopract. It gives Eclipse a VB-ish like development
    environment, where you build forms using simple controls that it
    provides. At this point, it looks like an infant release of features
    in that VB has many controls you can plop onto a form, where W4T has
    just a dozen or so.

    The concern I have is I want to develop a large scalable web
    application quickly and while my Java is good, my
    JSP/HTML/Strutts/Faces/etc. is a bit rusty. This would be a great tool
    in that it produces a WAR file for deployment and I never touch
    anything but POJO.

    Their papers talk about how they do things a bit differently, such as
    they have their own class loader and they make the visibility of
    objects more like a stand alone VB app than a conventional web app.
    Why they chose to do this is not clear. The ability to develop forms
    in a graphical manner rather than an HTML/JSP/JSTL manner is quite
    useful in and of itself.

    But my questions have to do with scalability and their underlining
    framework. Is anyone familiar with the tool? Can anyone say if it has
    problems scaling due to its underlining framework?

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