Geert Bevin wrote:
1. If RIFE is really all it appears to be (e.g., a complete answer
to the questions Ruby on Rails has posed to the Java community), how
come it is not more widely used? It is still a very minor player
(whether or not this is justified). I was wondering why this might
be. Could it be to do with its Belgian (i.e., non-US) origins?
I just wanted to add to this that RIFE never was and still is not
intended to be a RoR-clone for Java. We have been working on the
framework for almost 4 years now and only recently prepped RIFE/Crud
for public release after having used it a long time internally. We
have our own ideals and ideas. Some go intro the same direction as
RoR, but many are also the opposite. It just happens that RoR took
the community by a storm and that people compare RIFE with it.
It's OK, I'm aware of this. By "a complete answer to the questions Ruby
on Rails has posed to the Java community", I mean a full-stack framework
which has the advantages of comprehensiveness, integration and
ease-of-use which people praise in Rails - I wasn't suggesting that the
framework itself was written as a response to Rails. One can read a lot
of Rails articles suggesting that Java has had its day in the web
application area and the future belongs to Ruby, etc. My point was that
you can (I hope) mention RIFE to refute this.
Personally I think that the best thing in RoR is Ruby, I don't like
the framework itself very much. Since a wealth of JVM scripting
languages are supported in RIFE (like Groovy), you can get much of
agility that scripting languages give you.
I'm encouraged that Jython seems to be showing signs of renewed life (it
was falling way behind C Python), as I have really come to like Python
for certain kinds of work and the thought of being able to use it in
RIFE is appealing.
John
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