By bloid
via java.sys-con.com
Published: May 21 2009 / 03:51
This article tries to demonstrate that Java can be more productive than Ruby. We are going to develop the same application of the article Rolling with Ruby on Rails Revisited (part 1 [1] and part 2 [2]) but using POJO [3]s annotated with JPA [4] and a Model Driven Framework, OpenXava [5] in this case. The result is that with less code, and less time you obtain a more powerful application.
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rob_dimarco replied ago:
The conclusion does not hold water at all. It seems the author thinks that "auto-generating HTML" == "kicks butt". This comparison would have been more interesting if the author had compared RoR with the ActiveScaffold plugin enabled.
akitaonrails replied ago:
This is the definition of "irrelevancy". It just signals one thing, "desperation" :-D
dagi3d.net replied ago:
why the does he write the sql by hand instead of using migrations?
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xymor replied ago:
Scaffolding is just the tip of the iceberg. You fail to acknowledge the plugin architecture and the flexibility/expressiveness of the language.
thm.myopenid.com replied ago:
I can hardly count the number of issues I have with this article. Just the title: "> kicks > in the butt" – what the...?
So he prefers auto-generated code to scaffolding? OK, but then don't pass it of as a comparison – or compare your framework to something that does the same.
I can recommend this article that does just that: http://mentalized.net/journal/2009/05/19/java_kicks_ruby_in_the_what_now/
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