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 JDesignerPro vs. Cafe
 If you have been keeping up to
date with the news on Integrated Development Environments
(IDEs) you will no doubt have heard that Cafe is
outselling all other tools in the IDE space. It must have
something to do with Symantec's marketing push because it
couldn't be due to the actual applications that people
are successfully building with Cafe. Here we show two
similar screens built using only wizards, the first built
with Cafe and the second built with JDesignerPro. Below
them we list the differences, you be the judge.
Incidently, the JDesignerPro built screen took less time
and less effort to build than the Cafe built screen.
Cafe built
Employee Maintenance Screen
JDesignerPro
built Employee Maintenance Screen
Notice the following
differences:
| Screen
Feature/Attribute |
Cafe |
JDesignerPro |
| Searching
for Employees |
Must clear form and enter search
criteria and press QBE button. Only allows AND
operations. |
Enter search information in upper
left search panel press search button. Allows
both AND and OR operations. |
| Search
Results Display |
None. You cannot visually see a
list of matching employees. You must blindly step
through the list to find the employee you require
using the awkward VCR style controls. |
Displayed neatly in Result List
Tree structure allowing fast access to the
desired employee. |
| Employee
fields such as Dept ID(Cafe) Job ID(JDP) |
Simple text entry only. Allows
mistakes to be made by end user. |
Values come from another database
lookup table and are displayed in a pulldown to
prevent invalid values from entering the
database. |
| Detail
grid containing pay stub information. |
Plain format, does not resize to
occupy full screen if application size is
increased. |
Edit masks for currency, enhanced
date pulldowns, colors to highlight columns.
Automatically resizes to fill screen if screen
size is adjusted. |
| Number
of screen buttons to accomplish searches and
updates |
22. More chance of end users being
confused and pressing the wrong button. |
6. Less chance for enduser
confusion. |
| Number
of status bars |
2 |
1 |
So, you
be the judge. When you really want to get the job done
wouldn't you use the development system that is not only
the easiest but also produces the most usable finished
applications. And if Cafe is outselling other tools then
surely you'd think it was the best, but then where does
that put JDesignerPro?
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