Thanks for the detailed reply I will take a look at the ref(s) you pointed to :)
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Dan Haywood <[email protected]>wrote: > Yeah, I was aware of Qi4J, though feel slightly guilty of not having > downloaded it and played with it directly. > > From what I gather, it's a clever bit of software, using Java interfaces to > meld together an runtime instance, very akin to traits in Scala. > > It's strongly aligned with the DCI concept, which Jim Coplien and also > Trygve Reenskaug (he the inventor of MVC and who wrote the forward to > Richard Pawson's thesis on Naked Objects) are into. So DCI as a concept it > has pedigree. But DCI isn't OO (as Isis is). And, although I think I get > DCI as a concept, I'm not convinced by it, even though it does have > Trygve's name behind it. Judge for yourself by reading [1], [2]. > > Another thing: Qi4j uses CQRS / event sourcing for its persistence. That > seems to make sense for them for their use cases. Isis addresses a > different set of use cases, though, I think. > > Finally, Qi4J was started by Rickard Oberg. He has a narrower view of REST > than me [3, last 7 minutes or so], which is further evidence that Isis and > Qi4J are designed for different things. > > HTH > Dan > > > > [1] http://www.artima.com/articles/dci_vision.html > [2] http://www.infoq.com/interviews/coplien-dci-architecture > [3] http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/design-architecture/restful-objects > > On 28 June 2012 17:09, Mohammad Nour El-Din <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi All... > > > > In one of the daily standups a colleague of mine mentioned Qi4J [1]. I > > took a look at it and I was surprised cause, for me it looked like what > > Isis does or can do > > > > Dan, would you please have a look ? I want to know why that framework is > > taking a lot of lights these days while Isis is already there. > > > > Looking forward to your reply > > > > > > [1] http://www.qi4j.org > > > > -- > > Thanks > > - Mohammad Nour > > ---- > > "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep > moving" > > - Albert Einstein > > > -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour ---- "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" - Albert Einstein
