by way of explanation
I am not coming to this as a programmer but from an idea that I am trying to work through, so I am learning coding as I go along. I have used two frameworks in my journey,
Struts for server-side and Dojo for the client-side, and I ended up finding both restrictive. So my experience has been that learning frameworks takes up learning time, and tends to lead to dead ends. So I am avoiding them for now.
While I now find JQuery interesting, I have basically completed my client-side stuff, and am now moving back to doing the
Java stuff on the server side.
Perhaps I can use frameworks when I refactor later when my idea is settled and I can afford to employ people to refactor my code. But until then...
Well, that's my story for now anyway