On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:39 AM, clay <[email protected]> wrote: > Five years ago, there were intense debates of web frameworks. There > were Java framework wars among Struts vs JSF vs Tapestry vs Wicket vs > Spring vs etc along with the the prominent non-Java frameworks such as > PHP, ASP.NET, Rails, etc. > > Recently, I've been working on rich web applications that use: > - 100% static HTML/JavaScript/CSS > - Client-side JavaScript GUI framework such as ExtJS or YUI or > something similar. > - Server-side web services such as JAX-RS/JSON or something similar. > > No traditional server-side HTML web framework. > > This really seems like the perfect dev stack for the web. The tools > are extremely easy to learn and use and debug. I can edit static HTML/ > JS content and get feedback instantly or edit server-side code and > restart web services in seconds. There is no code generation, which > from past experience always leads to headaches eventually. Completely > separate client/server source code is much easier to read, edit, and > works much better with syntax highlighting than hybrid server-side > template files that mixed template markup, server code, and client > code. And, most importantly, the end web apps are extremely high > quality, extremely fast, and fully customizable. > > Having done hundreds of web projects with dozens of web frameworks, > and witnessing so much debate about which framework was better, I'm > amazed at how much better web development is without any traditional > framework piece at all. > > So, would people tend to agree? I'm also surprised that after how > heated the server-side web framework wars got, few people have > mentioned their obsolescence.
I agree! I prefer implementing services that return JSON and creating HTML views of that data using jQuery in the browser. I recommend running JSLint on all your JavaScript code. It has saved me a lot of debugging time. -- R. Mark Volkmann Object Computing, Inc. -- 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.
