Learn Seam or ASP.NET? Good place to ask I know :-)
cfraser.reg.hill-labs.co.nz Apr 16, 2009 1:58 AMHi all,
First up, long post, sorry for that, and also I know that asking this question on this forum will probably get some pretty biased answers... that's Ok, otherwise I wouldn't ask :-).
I am truly at a bit of a cross roads. I lead a team of 3 developers. We are not dot Net developers, nor do we have lots of experience in Java. Our main development tool thus far has been Borland/CodeGear Delphi, but now it is time to choose between the two... java/jsf/seam and C# ASP.Net
I have played around with JSF and Facelets a bit, and the other guys have also done a little bit of Java a while ago...
My first opinion on playing with Java/Eclipse/JSF/JBoss Tools and Facelets was wow, this is cool... much better environment than Delphi... especially for the web stuff.
The other day I thought I should check out the other side, and downloaded MS Visio Studio... so far I like the feel of Eclipse better, but it is only early days, but I did also get that 'Wow this is even easier' feeling compared to JSF/etc...
From download to go, having a button on a form updating a text control was easy... Changing the C# code and saving, flicking back to IE page, hit the button and, what, wow, some type of hot deployment going on, this is feeling pretty cool.
We now need to choose what direction we will take going forward. I would say there is a little bit of pressure to go MS as most local developer companies around here are MS based, some Java a couple of hours away, but have not found any Seam users close by... I am considering this as we may use another company to give us a jump in the right direction with our latest web project.
The little play with Visual Studio was interesting but trivial.
I would love to hear from someone experienced in both .net and java/jsf/seam/etc. Not sure if anyone is lurking here with that experience, but I would love some opinions.
We have Linux servers mostly, and I am sitting on a Mac writing this, but cross platform is not a definite necessity, be nice, but not a requirement. If it was, it would surly push us along the Java path.
I have had a good Google, and have not found any good comparisons of the web frameworks, happy to also take pointers on where else to look.
Again, sorry for the long post, and thanks to those who have managed to read through it :-)
Regards
Colin
First up, long post, sorry for that, and also I know that asking this question on this forum will probably get some pretty biased answers... that's Ok, otherwise I wouldn't ask :-).
I am truly at a bit of a cross roads. I lead a team of 3 developers. We are not dot Net developers, nor do we have lots of experience in Java. Our main development tool thus far has been Borland/CodeGear Delphi, but now it is time to choose between the two... java/jsf/seam and C# ASP.Net
I have played around with JSF and Facelets a bit, and the other guys have also done a little bit of Java a while ago...
My first opinion on playing with Java/Eclipse/JSF/JBoss Tools and Facelets was wow, this is cool... much better environment than Delphi... especially for the web stuff.
The other day I thought I should check out the other side, and downloaded MS Visio Studio... so far I like the feel of Eclipse better, but it is only early days, but I did also get that 'Wow this is even easier' feeling compared to JSF/etc...
From download to go, having a button on a form updating a text control was easy... Changing the C# code and saving, flicking back to IE page, hit the button and, what, wow, some type of hot deployment going on, this is feeling pretty cool.
We now need to choose what direction we will take going forward. I would say there is a little bit of pressure to go MS as most local developer companies around here are MS based, some Java a couple of hours away, but have not found any Seam users close by... I am considering this as we may use another company to give us a jump in the right direction with our latest web project.
The little play with Visual Studio was interesting but trivial.
I would love to hear from someone experienced in both .net and java/jsf/seam/etc. Not sure if anyone is lurking here with that experience, but I would love some opinions.
We have Linux servers mostly, and I am sitting on a Mac writing this, but cross platform is not a definite necessity, be nice, but not a requirement. If it was, it would surly push us along the Java path.
I have had a good Google, and have not found any good comparisons of the web frameworks, happy to also take pointers on where else to look.
Again, sorry for the long post, and thanks to those who have managed to read through it :-)
Regards
Colin