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Some of you that also listen to the Java Posse may have heard of this project before. The EasyEclipse Project basically did all the grunt work of making usable distributions of Eclipse based on your target usage (swing,c++,webapp ..etc). Normally the developer would have to do the voodoo of getting the right plugins and kits working right in Eclipse. The WDT + plugins integration flashbacks have kept me away from Eclipse for almost 2 years now. Today I downloaded the "EasyEclipse Server Java" distribution (which is aimed at the Swerva-Side Java developer) so I could play with JBoss' Jbpm examples (Yes, I'm still looking at workflow engines) and it worked without a hitch. I was pleasently ${!surprised} for a change.

Just spent some time looking at Spring Webflow and OSWorkflow. Neither of them is really looking like it will do what I need without a lot of integration code on my WW project. SWF is a little too web centric for me (and has no out-of-the-box db store) and OSWF is a little too low level. I guess I could teach WW Action about the workflows, but why use a framework where a simple if/else will do? Another big challenge of doing a workflow implementation with an MVC app is to do it in a way that doesn't require the developer to mirror everything they did in the workflow back into the Action classes.

You know it's hard out here for a lead developer. It's about being half manager (babysitter) and half developer. It's not easy but it pays the bills. One thing I try to do with my wolf cubs is teach them stuff that will hopefully expand their horizons outside of this urban landscape. On a past job I had one pup that bragged that he learned best by example, just give him a tutorial/example and he's good to go. To his credit, once he saw how the code worked he was good at making it work for a project. As long as everything worked perfectly. As soon as a problem would show up though, we would have serious beef. He never took the time to learn the underlying technology so he would always bombard me with questions. This is a typical pattern: