Re: Feedback on Java Code Generator

Seam is a lot to take in at first. They "simplify" things with the 
seam-gen script but all that does is create you a whole stack of stuff 
which you don't understand any more than you did with an empty project :)

If you're doing a quick and dirty "get something on the web" project I'd 
probably not use Seam unless you were really keen to learn it. Seam 
solves a lot of MVC type problems in "standard" ways and I think is only 
going to gain popularity (disclosure: I work for JBoss).

My preference since the old days has always been against Java code 
generation. I can create POJO entities as fast as I can think of them so 
that's never been a problem. The database schema can be generated from 
there with any number of tools (Hibernate hbm2ddl if you're into that 
sort of thing). A middle-out approach I suppose you'd call it. Of course 
that doesn't address the CRUD code generation like Seam/[G]rails but 
really how hard is CRUD code to write? The more involved stuff is the 
page flow logic which you can't generate (yet).

-Chris

Shawn Hartsock wrote:
> I found it very difficult to work with.
>
> On Jan 8, 2008 2:45 PM, David Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> Just curious whether anyone has tried out Seam yet from JBoss which provides
>> integration of Hibernate/JPA with Ajax-enabled JSF? This seems to address
>> the same issues.
>