Re: Ooooops!....
From: Gerard H. Pille <ghp_at_skynet.be>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:34:55 +0100
Message-ID: <4ee5926e$0$5039$ba620e4c_at_news.skynet.be>
Noons wrote:
> On Dec 9, 7:41 pm, mhoys<matthias.h..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> I really don't understand why they replaced Metalink/APEX (their own
>> product!!!) by MOS/Flash... especially if you see how APEX improved
>> over the years (and still is improving!).
>
> Because "shopping cart" technologies like flash and java/j2ee are
> "kewl".
> While apex/pl-sql are passée and last millenia because they touch the
> database directly (shock, horror!) instead of through umpteen layers
> of moronic "serialization frameworks".
>
> That's how development and design is decided nowadays: the degree of
> "kewlness"...
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:34:55 +0100
Message-ID: <4ee5926e$0$5039$ba620e4c_at_news.skynet.be>
Noons wrote:
> On Dec 9, 7:41 pm, mhoys<matthias.h..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> I really don't understand why they replaced Metalink/APEX (their own
>> product!!!) by MOS/Flash... especially if you see how APEX improved
>> over the years (and still is improving!).
>
> Because "shopping cart" technologies like flash and java/j2ee are
> "kewl".
> While apex/pl-sql are passée and last millenia because they touch the
> database directly (shock, horror!) instead of through umpteen layers
> of moronic "serialization frameworks".
>
> That's how development and design is decided nowadays: the degree of
> "kewlness"...
One of our developers has the task to replace a field on a form by a javabean, to allow typehead queries, or what they may be called. He just discovered that using the bean, the user lost the function keys. Getting kooler and kooler. Received on Sun Dec 11 2011 - 23:34:55 CST