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Good summary...

- I just wish someone had put that out months ago, before I was committed to XPages. Lotus may treat the old way as dead, but they have provided no reasonable path forward. What serious development shop doesn't have tons of legacy code they'd like to keep, and maybe change out piecemeal? It's essentially total lack of legacy integration alone is enough reason to avoid XPages like anthrax, for application migration.

- For totally new work? (shrug) Could be the cat's meow everyone says it is. Haven't done that, but I can say the viewPanel control is an utterly useless load of rubbish that doesn't belong on any web page. True, it's simple to use, but its presentation is about as inflexible as rebar, and the results are about as pretty as rebar.

- I drank the Kool-Aid. Avoid XPages for legacy application migration. You will not be sorry.

Hope this helps...


Feedback response number DGIE85SH5B created by ~Holly Zekhipisonnivu on 05/25/2010

XPages: why to use them? (~Alexis Minlute... 25.May.10)
. . Good summary... (~James Brewever... 25.May.10)
. . My comments (~Denise Xanaman... 25.May.10)
. . . . Thanks for the comments (~Alexis Minlute... 25.May.10)
. . It's not as bad as you think... (~Sanjay Quettum... 25.May.10)
. . . . It is as bad as you think... (~James Brewever... 25.May.10)
. . . . . . Trust me, no Kool-Aid here... (~Sanjay Quettum... 25.May.10)
. . . . . . . . Yet everyone seems to say it's 97% ... (~James Brewever... 25.May.10)
. . . . . . . . . . Just for others reading, not everyo... (~Elizabeth Minf... 26.May.10)
. . . . . . . . . . . . I agree completely! (~James Brewever... 26.May.10)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heh... (~Sanjay Quettum... 26.May.10)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . that is not what I said (~Elizabeth Minf... 26.May.10)
. . . . OK Thanks (~Alexis Minlute... 25.May.10)
. . My thoughts (~Maria Xanjumib... 25.May.10)
. . . . Thanks for your comments (~Alexis Minlute... 25.May.10)
. . . . . . use the MS OOXML SDK V2 for Excel 2... (~Elizabeth Minf... 26.May.10)
. . . . . . . . Is that Java based? (~Alexis Minlute... 26.May.10)
. . . . . . . . . . no Java yet (~Elizabeth Minf... 26.May.10)
. . . . . . . . . . . . I'm generating the XML (~Alexis Minlute... 27.May.10)
. . . . . . Some of my thoughts (~Elizabeth Dwoj... 25.May.10)
. . . . . . . . Good comments (~Alexis Minlute... 25.May.10)
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. . . . . . . . Yes, I'm using them in my other rep... (~Alexis Minlute... 26.May.10)
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. . . . don't wait MS will develop a conver... (~Patti Desvelut... 31.Jan.11)




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