On Wed, 2014-12-17 at 09:09 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote: > […] > Very interesting. Even after all IDE details are factored out, the > code is quite convoluted. No wonder Ruby on Rails and friends are so > attractive by comparison. -- Andrei
For the record, the right tools for lightweight web applications on the JVM are Grails, Ratpack, or Vert.x. JavaEE is for "enterprise size sites" (which is why it has enterprise in the title I guess :-). Spring as was is still there but Spring Boot is making a lot of people very happy. I do not do any Web application, but I know a lot of people who do. BSkyB for example do some JavaEE, quite a lot of Spring, and a great deal of Grails. cf. http://grails.org/doc/2.4.x/guide/gettingStarted.html, http://www.ratpack.io/manual/current/, http://vertx.io/ -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
