On 11/26/06, Tom Bednarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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!!! >
Ohh, the magic of configuration files... that one of the reasons we dropped Zope. > 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. > Borrow something to mimic other languages is bad: they try to do something that originally aren't designed for, and sometimes they implement these functionality badly (in a bad way?) What more I could say? Welcome aboard! :-) > Tom > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users > -- Luis Lavena Multimedia systems - Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. Vince Lombardi _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
