Re: Competition

>GUI.  Would designer mockups need to be manually translated by the coder 
>into framework-specific components?   There's probably stuff that I'm 
>missing, but I'm not sure if these frameworks compete directly with 
>Barracuda?  

  I think you're correct that they only complete in a general way, 
in so much that a web-app done with another framework isn't one done
using Barracuda.

  Having said that,  I understand that the Echo project has some addons
that allow the templating of pages, and the Millstone one has replaceable
themes, allowing the seperation of designer/coder there, so it might
not be quite as clear-cut as that.

  [Again, as a one-person development group doing a quick web-based 
app to exercise a feature for acceptance testing, my requirements were
not the usual ones when I chose it - I have to say that I was 
impressed with Millstone once running but unimpressed with the 
requirements it has in terms of XML support needed.  I couldn't
easily get it going with either WL6.1 or Resin, although it was
happy enough with a copy of Jetty.]

Gwyn