Hi Vlad

That article you sent me does sum up my fears nicely.

Especially this bit.

When (or if) you finally pick a framework and implement it as a company/application standard, you are basically “stuck” with it. Very often you develop a love/hate relationship with it (I had an ex like that <g>). A good framework, however, will let you extend it and do what you want it to do in a fairly easy way. However, if you make the wrong choice, the framework can become a hindrance instead of a help. And even if your choice is good, it is up to you to abide by the framework’s programming guidelines otherwise you can end up programming around the framework instead of in it. A framework may dictate how an application looks or behaves and you may not like it. Make sure that if you don’t like it, you can easily change it and wont be penalized by losing features. Some frameworks out there are not very forgiving.

This is why I have been dithering so long (I have already been through one divorce) . Especially now that we are encouraged to have enterprise wide class libraries.

Thanks



>Hi, Mark!
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>We just making the same investigation to determine which framework is the best choise. I'm interested too in such information despite we already reviewed most of the popular frameworks, but did not made a decision yet. Can you give more specifics what kind of application you're going to make? Different frameworks supposed to be used for different purposes.
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>You can also look to following link:
>http://members.home.net/bmassi/article0719.htm
>You will find there nice list of the items you require to know before to make a choise.
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>I can say only that there are no any really good framework for most cases. In most cases for large applications usually framework require some fixes or even rebuilding.
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>>Does anyone know what contributor to UT is familiar with the most Frameworks?
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>>By that I mean what person has actually worked with the most. Not just looked at them.
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>>I bet we have a contributor who has worked with at least 5 of them, maybe more.
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>>I would very much like this persons opinion on what FW I should buy.
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>>I am still dithering over what Framework to use for my next project after management shot down my original choice of framework. I expect some of you will be fed up with me harping on about this subject for the past year:(
>>To those folks I apologise.
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>>This process has taken me so long now that my own homegrown Framework is beginning to look ok, but not as robust as want. Also the time it takes me to turn in solid apps is longer than I think it should be at this stage.
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>>The department I work for has plans for some small distributed apps making use of the web.
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>>Thanks
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>>Please Email me if you would prefer a private correspondence.
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>>MarkYoung@ntlworld.com