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"My team did not make the grade"

Originally published on June 7, 2007

Interesting discussion on the Wicket mailinglist about a team which decided to use Struts 2 instead of Wicket. Quote:

Hi Florian, To be honest, you should have titled this post "My team did not make the grade". There are many developers in the world whose skill and ambition rise little above cut and paste robot, and many burned out managers who have decided employees will never be capable of much else. Struts is a perfect framework choice where such conditions coincide. If you are in such a place right now, then for the love of all things holy, move on before your soul, and skills, languish. On the other hand, if you work for a place where the power of OOP is understood, and developer creativity is required and appreciated, Wicket will be the most natural choice.

jim

After the XP Day in Hamburg last year, I posted something a little bit similar (in German)