On Mar 20, 2006, at 7:48 AM, Dennis wrote:
I've done quite a bit of work creating tools that can be used rapidly
for jsp/servlets. I have form validators and language tags that
replace
struts stuff (so you don't have to reload the whole app when you
change
something.. instead things just work when you refresh the page) I
have
a default struts action that calls a bean shell script depending on
the
path and that helps a lot too. I've noticed that that type of
development just doesn't seem to be too popular in the Java world
though. You're right, there doesn't appear to be any reason that
things
have to take so long with Java to develop, but I can't quite figure
out
why there isn't yet a good ActiveRecord type framework for Java yet.
(The ones started have gone nowhere and don't seem to have much
support.)
Article of interest: http://www.theserverside.com/articles/
article.tss?l=RailsHibernate
I'm not a fan of Java, but if you want an enterprise class ORM then
it looks like Hibernate is a slightly better choice than ActiveRecord
(Ruby on Rails). But if you're working on small projects the
verbosity of Java is a huge drawback, I'd definitely go with RoR.
-Blake
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