Days of …

I tried to search all over the web for a Java Faces component, which will do a simple thing: totals and subtotals. And I failed. It seems that whole web is about how much more AJAX you could put everywhere, not how more useful your product could be for average user.

It could be done through a facet tag, which is obvious.

I think about that as competitive advantage for myself. If nobody done it - I should do it and be recognised for it!

For a website I want to build, I have to choose the platform and the programming language. At work I use Java and Websphere 6, but can’t use it for my own project. The reason is that I don’t know how popular my service would be it seems quite expensive to put it into Websphere hosting. I have Java capabilities in my hosting plan here, but its only for web applications with no backend server support. In other words - there will be no MVC. Only JSPs and servlets.

And I will not be able to use JDK 5, nor be able to change server to, say, Glassfish, so I will be able to use some latest useful JSF components.

Another choice would be to choose other language, say Ruby. But I don’t have any experience using it, so it would be a major roadblock for a starters.

I’m stuck again!

I was thinking about Web 2.0 and found some similarities between them and dotcoms:

History repeating, huh?

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