Hi Will, Thanks a lot for your feedback!
> > Just out of curiosity, is your Java web app broken? The Rubyists might > string me up for this, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Especially > if it is mission critical (i.e. the unavailability of your web app for > more than a minute or two will cost you pain, suffering, or your job). > > That said, at my former employer, I converted a (simple) Java web app > running on Windows to a Rails app on Linux, but I also had a week with > utterly nothing else to do, a clueless manager who didn't know a thing > about managing a programmer (much less managing a person), a supervisor > who encouraged me to learn new things, and no one screaming bloody > murder if the app was down for a while. > > == > Will Regarding Java / Rails etc: It is a Web-Frontend for a self owned product. I like to extend the application and I have the impression, that development with ruby and the rails framework is a lot faster then with Java. Java is a good technology and it offers a lot of OpenSource support (Apache group) and it is bullet proof in production. Java has many different OpenSource MVC frameworks. Struts is probably the most known because it was one of the first on the market. What I consider a problem is that every Java Web App ends up in writing endless XML configuration files that you cannot debug. Basically you can spend hours and days to find a bug in your application which finally turns out to be a misconfigured XML file! I really hate that meanwile!!! So basically I am looking for an environment that speeds up development time and thats currently the only reason, why I am looking at Ruby on Rails. On the Java side there are also newer frameworks such as JavaServer Faces. Groovy is a scripting language that borrowed a lot from Ruby. Tom _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
