Re: [jug-discussion] If you started a web project on the JVM today...

2009-05-01 Thread nlesiecki
If only I could write GWT code in Groovy then I would be in complete Nirvana. So, you'd want to write code in a dynamic language in the browser. Hmm. Some would say that's what Javascript is for. :) (Just imagine. Groovy compiling to Java compiling to Javascript. VM optimization

Re: [jug-discussion] If you started a web project on the JVM today...

2009-05-01 Thread Kit Plummer
Not saying that it is a valid concern, but does anyone else have a Google-fear? There's just something about so much technical-debt with a single provider that makes me nervous. Surprised a bit on the GWT thing too. I'm not a GUI developer, let alone a Javascript developer but it just

Re: [jug-discussion] If you started a web project on the JVM today...

2009-05-01 Thread Kit Plummer
Ha. Well, yeh there's that kind of fear too. :) Outside of the infrastructure potential what's the benefit of slagging all transactions through a Google API? Pleading ignorance here too - I don't know squat about GWT - so the API notion could be way off. Don't get me wrong this is a

Re: [jug-discussion] If you started a web project on the JVM today...

2009-05-01 Thread Richard Hightower
True enough On 5/1/09 1:29 PM, Nick Lesiecki ndlesie...@yahoo.com wrote: If only I could write GWT code in Groovy then I would be in complete Nirvana. So, you'd want to write code in a dynamic language in the browser. Hmm. Some would say that's what Javascript is for. :) (Just

Re: [jug-discussion] If you started a web project on the JVM today...

2009-04-30 Thread Warner Onstine
I guess that's one out of three Java :P. -warner On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Warner Onstine warn...@gmail.com wrote: Grails, with Flex and CouchDB. -warner On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Andrew Lenards andrew.lena...@gmail.com wrote: I'm curious for the opinion of the list.  If you

Re: [jug-discussion] If you started a web project on the JVM today...

2009-04-30 Thread Kit Plummer
Well, sorta. Grails is mostly non-Java, right? Sure, you can write Java services, or embed Java in Groovy... :) On Apr 30, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Warner Onstine wrote: I guess that's one out of three Java :P. -warner On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Warner Onstine warn...@gmail.com wrote: