[Seaside] VisualAge

[David Mitchell]

>>The VA Web Connection isn't actually too bad, depending on what you want
>>to do.
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>I noticed, and decided to stick with it for the time being. The other
>people on the project have quite a bit of VA experience, but not a lot
>of Web knowledge, so leaving them with tools they know might be quite
>an advantage. Usually I shy away from these glitzy graphical tools,
>but with the Smalltalk source code at hand, it looks manageable so
>far.
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I used Web Connection on a large public access project for a major US 
auto insurance carrier. Successful project and the IBM stuff scaled up 
nicely. I never cared for the graphical tools in the composition editor, 
and I think the HTML parts are particularly bad. For our views, we just 
coded directly to the AbtHtmlPart hierarchy (which is similar to how 
Seaside generates its HTML).