Patrick beat me to it. I was thinking a lot about this last night, even drafted a blog and started a demo database I'll try to get done tonight.
Coming from the corporate world (as a subcontractor) the reality is: Domino is GREAT for R.A.D. I built a skills assessment system that was use as the template for an oracle backe peoplesoft app (not the best choice, but out of my hands). My proof-of-concept idn't take long and was fully functional... but the underlying architecture, standards mode, accessibility, maintnance, all made hellish by the plethora of hacks it entailed. For real "must meet all criterion" work, JSP, JSEE, Struts... these things are the future. Maybe Ruby on Rails.. not sure... it appears to have a lot of the same canned functionality that we today curse in domino (was once standard or near, but now lags).
All is not lost, though. Domino can still be the template. We just need to realize when it's time to up the game a notch and start bringing more complex architectuers into play. I hope to illustrate this can be relatively painless in my demo and blog later.
Patrick beat me to it. I was thinking a lot about this last night, even drafted a blog and started a demo database I'll try to get done tonight.
Coming from the corporate world (as a subcontractor) the reality is: Domino is GREAT for R.A.D. I built a skills assessment system that was use as the template for an oracle backe peoplesoft app (not the best choice, but out of my hands). My proof-of-concept idn't take long and was fully functional... but the underlying architecture, standards mode, accessibility, maintnance, all made hellish by the plethora of hacks it entailed. For real "must meet all criterion" work, JSP, JSEE, Struts... these things are the future. Maybe Ruby on Rails.. not sure... it appears to have a lot of the same canned functionality that we today curse in domino (was once standard or near, but now lags).
All is not lost, though. Domino can still be the template. We just need to realize when it's time to up the game a notch and start bringing more complex architectuers into play. I hope to illustrate this can be relatively painless in my demo and blog later.
Cheers