Re: JSF/EGL datatable positioning question

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Bob.  You and Joe are whetting my appetite for EGL.  I just hope 
I can find time to take a solid look.

You say: "With EGL our solution is simple. If you need to go outside EGL 
then do so in the language of your choice as a callable program and then 
call it from within EGL."  I am still a bit skeptical that it will be a 
productive approach (but I can't really weigh in until I try it).  I ran 
into this a bit with HATS (no comparison with EGL, I expect).  There 
would be a very *small* tweak I wanted to make, perhaps a dialog that 
presented itself differently or I wanted a different action to occur on 
a click vs a double click.  I found myself writing quite a bit of java 
or javascript to implement what I needed to override the generated .jsp 
functionality.  The devil is always in the details.

I have had plenty of experience with productive frameworks where 90% of 
what we needed was done quickly and easily and then we got bogged down 
in that last 10% of functionality, basically hacking and whacking our 
way through the framework code to get what we wanted.  That last 10% 
because VERY expensive and difficult to maintain, offsetting the 
benefits of the quick 90%.

So, I'll take a hard look and see what this EGL stuff is all about.  I 
am not anxious to go the the YAF route (Yet Another Framework), but if 
it delivers and I can quickly customize the results, it might be worth 
the effort.

Thanks again for the response.

Pete