Year: 2005

I didn’t see this article before today. That’s really impressive results, but as they point out GUI development is the hardest part in Java. We spend way too much time tweaking GUI stuff compared to business/application logic.

Another weakness is the learning curve of the J2EE frameworks. The 4GL has a much lower learning curve sacrificing control. But like one of the older experienced 4GL guys at work pointed out; you don’t have control when something goes wrong, but then it’s just as easy to work your way around the problem with some drag and drop.

This is exactly what I’m trying to fully understand at work. I’ll have to read up on the entire series at work tomorrow.

And just after my post on if SOA does exist I see this article on the benefits of SOA.

The company hasn’t calculated potential cost savings from the shift to an SOA-based application development model. But Poulter noted that using Web services to integrate applications over the past two years has been 60% to 70% cheaper than traditional hard-coded integration.

I don’t understand how that can be. Maybe I’m stupid, but I really don’t understand how using something like webservices will save you 60%-70% over anything else. What was the alternative? Assembler? 😉