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~Wei Frojipymanakoi

Mar 31, 2011, 7:51 PM

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Xpages are so easy, why do they have to be so hard?

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The Mastering XPages book is quite good.

Definitely learn your way around JavaScript, that's a must-have skill anyway.

Some of the IDE artifacts in XPages are confusing to me, for example the repeat control. I can glance at the underlying XML and understand it, but in the IDE I just ask "What's THAT?".

Also, it's not so easy to understand the JSF life cycle. A nice color chart of that would be nice.

All in all, not so easy to learn, but it's JSF, it's a beast.

~Bella Asaresalynivu

Apr 1, 2011, 3:54 AM

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Re: Xpages are so easy, why do they have to be so hard?

Thanks for the responses, have been to most of those and purchased mastering Xpages (which I found quite frustrating).

Than than winging I've decided to make my own getting started guide, more aimed at us @Forumula guys..

~Miriam Dwotoothergon

Apr 4, 2011, 4:07 PM

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Re: Xpages are so easy, why do they have to be so hard?

@XPages for @Formulas guys. In the same boat, so very interested, yes please, X10. Or is this just not going to happen for the common power users who can do much with forms and views but remains stumped with XPages ... should we just give up and remain old school ... my gut says no, their must be a way to get @formula type power user devs functional ?