Despite all the tools and platforms available for integration, hand-coding is still rife in enterprises. Is this a bad thing? Loraine Lawson says maybe it is, maybe it isn't -- and observes that a lot ...

In the development of line-of-business (LOB) applications, there has long been a certain tug-of-war between tools that automate development, or frameworks that accelerate it, on the one hand; and the ...