On Aug 2, 2010, at 3:59 AM, MB wrote:
> Matt Raible sa såhär: > >> The nice thing about using AppFuse Light is you'll probably learn more about >> the underlying frameworks, which is generally necessary to maintain an >> application long-term. > > What are the differences in design philosophy between AppFuse and > AppFuse light? AppFuse Light provides minimum integration b/w the frameworks and doesn't try to do anything fancy. From appfuse-light.dev.java.net: "I was inspired to create it while writing Spring Live and looking at the struts-blank and webapp-minimal applications that ship with Struts and Spring, respectively. These "starter" apps were not robust enough for me, and I wanted something like AppFuse, only simpler." > Would it be impossible to have done AppFuse Light in java? AppFuse Light is done in Java, so I don't quite understand this question. > > I have only found 2 contenders to AppFuse so far - in regard to CMS-like > systems for simple web sites - and that is JetNuke - based on PHPNuke > - which codebase is very old and has some strange hacks in it and AtLeap > - which is nice though I'd like to see it support Struts 2. > I can't make up my mind if it will be faster to develop a simple CMS in > AtLeap or with AppFuse. For now it's AtLeap as I'm not that apt yet to > develop what I need - Calendar, news, galleries and a booking system > - but in long term I'm looking at AppFuse with Struts 2, Hibernate and > Spring. > > I also looked at Riot, but it will take me a long time ot do what I want > with it. If you know all the frameworks in it, it's probably a strong > contender though, though I suspect one could do something even better > with AppFuse. From the create-a-crud-app perspective, I think that JRuby on Rails, Grails and Spring Roo are all great alternatives. From an open source project perspective, they're much better because they have many more developers working on them. However, they all require you to learn a new language (or annotations/aspects in Spring Roo's) case. I'd look at this as an opportunity rather than a deterrent though. Hope this helps, Matt --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@appfuse.dev.java.net For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@appfuse.dev.java.net
