Edvin: rant is fine; what do you think about restlet: http://www.restlet.org/ ?
Andrei -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Lazy loading Accordion content From: Edvin Syse <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Sun 12 Jun 2011 08:00:54 AM CDT >> Just to clarify - I am not suggesting that it is a solution for a >> problem that doesn't exist! :) > > Hehe.. I understand :) But it kind of amazes me that not more people > use a proper remoting solution for their fat client business > applications. What do people do? Do they include jdbc-drivers and orms > directly in the client? That increases the size of the client > conciderably, and every time you fix a bug or change something in the > dao layer, you have to redeploy your app to all clients. If you > upgrade your dao dependencies -> redeploy again. > > That's just madness :) Same story with WebServices - Java WS libs are > huge, hard to work with, and slow compared to just binary object > serialization. You can't even properly express all data types in some > WebServices solutions. > > BRAP is a 16k dependency, and all you need to include in your app is > your domain objects and your service interfaces. You have much more > fine grained access control options in your service layer than if you > included the bemoth of an orm most people use as well :) > > You even get "pass by reference" style functionality with BRAP (by > enabling an option), so that if you write this on your client: > > Person person = new Person(); > person.setName("John Doe"); > personService.savePerson(person); > > .. person will contain the changes made to that object on the server > side. Perfect for db inserts, where the id field might be populated by > the dao layer. > > Hehe.. sorry for the off topic rant :) > > -- Edvin > > > >
