ya, depends on what you are doing. If java language integration is the most important thing to you, groovy beats ruby presently. else Ruby
On Sep 27, 8:31 pm, Raphael M <[email protected]> wrote: > Grails and Wicket for me. > > Everything that Phil said about groovy is right. But the Grails being > a copy of Rails is a great underestimation of Grails. > It is a copy in the sense that most features are copied, specially > developer ergonomics coming first together with convention over > configuration, simplicity, smarter/useful defaults etc. > But all the similarities mask how much they are different. > > Grails core intention is to make working with a java stack as easy as > working with a single full-stack framework like Rails. > The biggest attractive is that it's java all the way down(for better > or for worst). > > Saying Grails and JRoR are exchangeable is like saying Rails and > Djando are exchangeable. > > On Sep 26, 12:53 pm, phil swenson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > As I've written before... THe deal with Groovy is I spent a year solid > > doing nothing but Ruby. Then I spent significant time with Groovy > > (still do for the day job). I've found Groovy to look good on paper, > > but has a lot of warts. It's kind of a hybrid language with Java, > > which has some positives, but there is a lot of baggage that goes > > along with java. Like monster stack dumps, lousy APIs based on Java > > APIs instead of clean slate, awkward access to many of the cool > > features, crap like getting the lame java array to string behavior, > > bizarre access to the command line calls.... just a lot of little > > stuff that adds up. If I'd never used Ruby before Groovy, I'd > > probably be more accepting of the warts. And let's be honest, Grails > > is a copy of Rails. And still doesn't have database migrations, which > > is one of my favorite rails features. The innovation rate in the Ruby > > community seems a lot faster than the Groovy community to me as well, > > so I'd rather be there. > > > So obviously, if I'm going non-Java lang I would go JRuby on Rails. > > I'm personally curious if there are any decent Java (the lang) web > > frameworks out there - there are so many there has to be a handful of > > good ones. Wicket has been mentioned a lot - what specifically is good > > about it? Same with spring. These were the 2 I had been thinking > > about before this thread popped up. > > > On Sep 25, 8:20 pm, Steven Herod <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > And don't say Grails please, as I might as well just use JRuby on > > > > Rails.... just wondering if there is a good java web framework out > > > > there that is as rails-like as java can get? > > > > Actually, having done Grails and Rails (JRuby and Ruby), I'd still do > > > a Grails app over JRuby on Rails. > > > > Main reason is deployment, I've run into a few native extensions in > > > Ruby that don't work in JRuby and its just annoying in that regard. > > > > I basically stopped paying attention to Java Web frameworks after > > > discovering Grails, although I'm still looking for something that > > > makes the whole forms based data collection side of things completely > > > painless. > > > > ExtJS is good if you can deal with the JavaScript, A ExtGWT is a bit > > > more painful - it's not 'GWT with prettier controls' as I first > > > thought. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
