Good afternoon everyone! It so happened that for a long time I worked and am still working as an ASP.NET programmer. During this time, I wrote both Windows applications, RESTful services, and corporate web applications with more than 1,500 users on the enterprise intranet, simultaneously using the system, editing, deleting and adding to the Oracle database. Since the beginning of this year, I have set myself the goal of retraining as a Java programmer. Much here is very similar to C#, we know why. It is very important for me when relearning that the things that I could do using ASP.NET would be just as convenient and fast to implement in Java, or even better. In ASP.NET, for example, I could quickly write a web application that had a web interface with a standard template (which, by the way, is very pleasing to the eye, although standard). When I began to be interested in how to write web applications in Java, I immediately came across a mention that for this purpose it was necessary to master the Framework - Spring MVC. I haven’t found any good lessons on Spring yet. Based on the same material that I found, I came to the following disappointing conclusions: - when working with Spring, there is no convenient visual editor as in Visual Studio 2013. - there is no standard graphic template (theme). - since there is no visual editor, it is not clear how to add components - tables, charts, buttons - to the web form. - Is it really all done manually through a text file? The visual editor in Visual Studio made it possible in a matter of seconds to customize the way fields are displayed in the table, the binding to database fields, and the display format of each cell. Everything is fast, convenient, isn’t that the case here? - there are very few sensible online lessons on mastering Spring. I hope I am very mistaken, and many will refute my conclusions. I really want to believe that web programming in Java is no less convenient and enjoyable than in ASP.NET.
