Would now be a good time to advocate in favour of the Play framework?

On 13 February 2014 20:25, clay <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'd second the recommendation to use an embedded server.
>
> I was really happy with Grizzly. I couldn't see any advantages that
> embedded Jetty had over embedded Grizzly
>
> Also, Spring works fine with embedded servers. Lots of people are doing
> that. I did that, although I would prefer to not use Spring in the first
> place: it's a glorified bag of global variables!
>
>
> On Monday, February 10, 2014 4:13:43 AM UTC-6, KWright wrote:
>
>> The best advice is probably to "use Jetty"
>>
>> It seems to have much better support for running as an embedded
>> container, I've never seen a solution with Tomcat that didn't look
>> cumbersome.
>>
>> You might also investigate if you *truly* need a container.  I'm guessing
>> that your dependency on Spring demands one, but an increasing number of
>> frameworks and libraries (such as play) are happily doing away with
>> containers altogether.  This is certainly the trend in the Scala ecosystem,
>> but I'd be awfully surprised if the trickle down effect didn't mean that
>> similar ideas weren't also being adopted by someone somewhere in pure Java.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10 February 2014 10:05, Rakesh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> decided to do something different and deploy my app with an embedded
>>> Tomcat instance.
>>>
>>> The new Spring Boot project actively encourages this and it is very
>>> nice from a purely dev perspective not having to configure a container
>>> externally to test things.
>>>
>>> However, I deploy to Unix (AWS has their own variant) and am stumped
>>> with getting the app to automatically start.
>>>
>>> Googling around has uncovered some very complicated solutions,
>>> including an apache project to achieve this.
>>>
>>> Any advice? Does it have to be so hard?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Rakesh
>>>
>>>
>

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