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14 months ago I was not feeling very comfortable with the 2000ish approach of web apps development: see post  looking-for-web-framework   Namely having a backend web framework which spits HTML to the browser with a bit of javascript as icing sugar to give a bit of interactivity. Using Flex on a large scale project gave me a very good impression: Having a front end dedicated framework that you can test by itself without a backend was very productive I find the idea of discussing the API between the backend and front-end very sound With the nowadays processing power of end user devices, I like the idea of shifting the rendering processing load to the end user's terminal. At the time, June 2012, I wanted to evaluate some options for web development but pure Javascript did not even came to my mind. On a comparative article from JavaSPEKTRUM - Java Rich Client , Wicket was qualified as the technology that would allow to build a powerful user interface for the least complex

To choose is to live... Jacques Brel said "choisir c'est perdre": to choose is to loose. There would indeed be no choice to make if an option was definitely superior to the others. If you choose you will have to balance pros and cons and you will then have to loose. My great colleague, Achilleas Voutsas , reacted on less than a split second on that one. He straight away answered that: "To choose is to LIVE". He is right: if you have no choice, it is monotone. Choice is creativity. Choice is life. Going back to the theme. In 2005 Romain Eude and Gonzague Huet devised a solution allowing one to run an OpenLDAP server on a windows PC. That was brilliant and it helped tremendously the development of an LDAP based system. I could run an entire system on my laptop: database, application sever and OpenLDAP with 20000 entries. If you run Linux, OpenLDAP is no brainer choice to use. On Windows, the setup from that we used in 2005 is very easy but was not