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If you feel DHTML is too complicated to build online applications. You may be right. I felt the same way in 1999-2000. Web developers usually create the DHTML components and I felt that they don’t understand the needs of enterprise application developers, who were predominantly Java/C# programmers. Besides why should only web (e.g. DHTML/JavaScript) developers have all the fun with Ajax/Web 2.0 hype?

If I need to create a hierarchical menu, why should I write 1000 lines of DHTML code, which I didn’t know? Why can't I use a pre-built reusable GUI class (as we can do in Java/Swing) to input a string for each ‘cell’ (or menu item) of the hierarchical menu and let the Class do the writing? In 1999, I set out to solve the problem for Java developers. Only a Java developer best knows other Java developers' needs.

I had got hold of source code for a free DHTML component (Thanks to all of those, who donated great free DHTML components). I had written a Java Class that takes a String for each cell. The Java class prints the entire Component code, as it is, except replaces the contents of each cell, with the respective input string. After fixing few minor bugs and trivial modifications, Voila! I had a "data driven" reusable GUI Widget. Still I didn’t know how to write DHTML code, but I created a GUI Widget that can do the writing for me.

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