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Re:Java EE Is Moving to the Eclipse Foundation by tannhaeuser on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @01:35PM (#15240572)
> When we talk about rich libraries we mean actual libraries for generating PDFs

I was specifically talking about web libraries/tools, though. Nobody is saying Java backend development must be abandoned in general.

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Re:Java EE Is Moving to the Eclipse Foundation by pjmlp on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @02:08PM (#15240921)
How do you generate a PDF on such a cool JavaScript front end application?

Hint, you don't. Just hope that the browser does a good job with print to PDF, or run a server side pile of shell scripts, using LaTeX and Postscript, instead of a plain simple library.

And this is just one example from many, where JavaScript/Web sucks on the front-end.

Also Android is front-end development.

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