Hi Scotty,
thanks a lot for your very constructive suggestions, I'll keep your
email close-by during the interview ;-)
Best regards,
Geert
On 9-mrt-06, at 14:02, Scotty wrote:
Hi everyone,
I've been invited to give an interview on the JavaPosse about RIFE. I
need to provide them with a list of topics that I want to talk about.
Is there anything that you find important to discuss, or anything
that you would like to know more about?
Thanks for the comments.
Best regards,
Geert
Let me qualify my statements here by saying that I am very new to
rife, in fact
I would say that I am still evaluating it but I do like what I
see. I do have
experience with Struts, Tapestry and Spring MVC. I am also an avid
listener to
the Javaposse and so I am glad to hear you are going to be
interviewed.
I don't really have topics for you to cover but I do have some
advice/input.
Firstly I know that you have mentioned before the possibility of a
Rife book. I
think if you could announce something solid in this area on the
Javaposse it
would be an excellent endorsement for the framework. In fact if
you could
encourage another power user to write a book also would be
fantastic, maybe a
sourcebeat type book would be most compelling. I remember Matt
Raible's
excellent Spring book from sourcebeat got me over the hump of learning
Spring....the documentation although thorough was like walking in
mud. I tend
to believe that the most successful Open Source projects are well
supported in
the writing community....if the project's good they'll write about it.
Secondly I think you really need to emphasise Rife's productivity
boost to the
developer. I think that many in the Java community have web
framework fatigue.
For any of us to take the time to learn a framework outside of the
big four
(Struts/Webwork, JSF, Tapestry and Spring MVC) it must be for a really
compelling reason. I have also looked at Wicket, Echo and Stripes
and found
them to be interesting frameworks that probably would increase by
productivity
slightly (10-20%) but the effort to learn and the lack of market
demand for the
skills means that they are not compelling enough for me to commit
to learning.
However I think Rife is different. I see the opportunity not only
to increase
my productivity on the web layer but also in the service and
database layers.
In addition Rife/Crud is a Rails, derailer :-)
Which brings me to the third point....Rife is pretty unique in the
Java
community in providing a full stack implementation. I might be
missing
something but I don't of any other framework that does (I'm not
looking for an
argument about it). Emphasise this fact, it's very important.
Lastly when I first looked at Rife the one thing that made me think
twice was
the unusual templating syntax. I know that in 1.4 you have
addressed this issue
and I must say that I like the new syntax options. Mention this
change if you
can, there may be some people (and I know Matt Raible blogged about
it) that
never got past the templating syntax.
Well this is just my 2cents worth....hope it helps. Congrats on a
job well done
with Rife....I really hope it starts to snowball.
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