Submitted by “Some of the readers of my previous review of the Echo2 framework expressed concern that I didn’t write a complex enough application to give it a fair shot. Fair enough, I just finished writing a new web application using the Echo2 framework, complete with input validation and database access using Hibernate for object-relational mapping.” Read on.
I can say it looks sweet. Although I haven’t looked very closely at it from a development standpoint (only user perspective)
– jd
What concerns me is that it took three nights to produce something as trivial as the example.
What also concerns me is that people start getting crazy with AJAX and use it where it is not optimal. For example most public parts of a website should be page based so search engines can do their thing and for things like bookmarks etc. For web applications AJAX makes a lot of sense.
Bear in mind that the author was new to the framework.
Perhaps for a developer with more experience in the framework development would have been faster.
We have used echo1 to generate a fairly large application and we are happy with it. Things will only get better when we port to echo2 and get all the nice ajax features with hardly any code change.