A friend convinced me to try AppFuse once. I have a burning, probably un-justified hatred of Eclipse, so I tried the AppFuse + NetBeans tutorial. That may be

A friend convinced me to try AppFuse once. I have a burning, probably un-justified hatred of Eclipse, so I tried the AppFuse + NetBeans tutorial. That may be the most unproductive I have felt in my entire life. I made a damn login form and it took like 12 pages of tutorial, tons of setup, generating a whole bunch of files that seemed like they could have been done algorithmically because they are always the same, editing like nine different XML files with little bits of glue, and eventually like one or maybe two lines of code. Then, I got to wait for the WAR to compile each time I wanted to test a change, because the tutorial didn't seem to know about a developer mode which probably exists. I hate to sound all ranty and partisan, but I could find no way in which that process could be efficient and couldn't imagine anyone doing it voluntarily unless they were ordered or just had no exposure to the rest of the world. Also, I sort of object to having code stuffed in an eight-folder deep hierarchy where the preceding seven folders contain nothing at all. That's a lot of wasted navigation and clicking time and distraction.