The Java world starts to be boring…
Luca | February 28, 2007Last week I’ve been to the JavaWUG London meeting, and , among the others topics, we discussed of Rife and Grails.
What are these ?
Grails is a sort of Java port of Ruby on Rails: take Groovy (the G of the framework name) and mix with the Rails ideas (scaffolding ,strong usage of name convention etc etc) and you obtain Grails.
Rife is a web framework that work on the similar concept of Rails: define your model somewhere, the framework will create the basic infrastructure for yoand then you can have fun adding some more sugar to your web application.
Both look like really interesting frameworks but…they’re just taking a smart idea (the RoR one) and apply it in JavaLand.
Where is the time when the innovation was coming from the Java community ? Probably gone.
Nowadays the language is mainstream and from my point of view is loosing that geek soul that transforms a technology in a catalyser for a community.
Just to correct you, RIFE has been available since the
Geert Bevin | August 22, 2007Just to correct you, RIFE has been available since the year 2000, well before Rails. So there’s not much that we could have copied.
Rife anyway is a bit far from RoR or am
toni | August 22, 2007Rife anyway is a bit far from RoR or am I wrong?
I don’t think that neither RoR copied from Rife!