JSP Developer: Experience gain on MSAccess Program

[neltan]

2nd Hand Clothes is my 1st Access Application. I gain much solid experience on VB like application.

Pros:
+ rich GUI
+ simple, strict forward, easy, quick
+ quick development with all-in-one helping tools.
e.g. query, wizard, UI designer, report designer
+ quick deployment help to gather requirement from user
++ Programmer really focus on application logic

Cons:
- poor design structure -> modularizing project is a waste of time (only increase complexity)
-> complexity grow much when scale increase ~ big O square
- difficult to maintain esp. copy & paste coding
- functionality limited by language and tools
esp. MSAccess - multi-thread, multi-user, version, Chinese & English,
Window - Local Settings affect date format, currency format

My conclusion:
Microsoft really did a good job on GUI, usability on IT!
I'm a web programmer. The MSAccess really impress me.
Web development tools should move toward MS's usability & simpleness!

I am a web developer. Java is being more & more complex, make me feeling uncomfortable.
Struts, Spring, Hibernate, EJB, JDO, JSF... They are too much & too difficult for a 1 person project!!

 

[harebrain]

There's a question just dying to get out of there.

Are you just venting or what?

 

[neltan]

Ah... yes!
Um... no!

After using MSAccess for the rapid development, web application esp in JSP, is really too slow and too complex for a 1 person project.

I hope that J2EE would be more simple and not more complex! Webapp framework seem to help programmer, but it tighten our code.

I was a ASP programmer and now JSP. Just feeling that I have just escape from the ugly, silly VB code. But now face a giant and growing elephant!!