Comparison of dynamic web frameworks to J2EE/JSPs. [ Very interesting and informative. One of the guys in my team at work has been struggling, for months now, with a totally convoluted J2EE/JSP/Beans application (with a SAS backend, the part he's expert at). I've had to step in and help a bit just because I have a greater understanding of java and some of the XML garbage, but it sucks. We also don't have the source, so that's even more fun. Meantime, i'm developing a personal project in Rails and found it pretty nice. I didn't go through a long exploration process, but it sounded good so I figured I'd give it a shot. So far, so good. I will note that this vid must've been produced before Rails added support for what they call Migrations, which is a Ruby-based data modelling mechanism. You still have to run one SQL command at the beginning of your project, but from that point on, you just specify the data model in a simple ruby way and run the migration. It versions your migrations too, so if you create a table, or add some fields, that you don't actually want, you can roll it back to a previous version. Anyway, that feature brings rails a bit closer to the others, i guess. -k] Better Web Application Framework - Google Video |
