Re: JSF/EGL datatable positioning question

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