The Java framework wars

Not a week passes without a new battle (or carnage) on which Java Web development framework is the true one, today's sample:

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39358

The funny thing is that, just a couple of minutes after hitting that place, I read a blog pointing to this:

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12  :-)

As I've said in other posting, I do J2EE training for some of our customers, and inevitable somebody asks for a way of being framework-switch-protected, for example they want to right now use Struts but be able to switch to Velocity, JSF or *anything that could appear in the future*. In the .NET camp we only have ASP.NET (certainly not perfect but very good) and it still leaves us with a lot of choices in the details, so many that sometimes it irritates beginners, may be I should teach my ASP.NET students about their Java options :-)

5 Comments

  • >It's just that Java community is bigger, more open and mature.



    Bigger, probably true. More open, you've got a point. Mature? Mmmm, is maturity to change your mind about which is the best way of doing Web development every six months?

  • that's exactly the problem with being open, that's exactly what happens to Linux, everyone can do whatever they want and go on with their own version, that's where closed source always wins

  • and the point is not (necesarily) to make everything closed source, just centralized

  • > that's exactly the problem with being open,

    > that's exactly what happens to Linux, everyone

    > can do whatever they want and go on with their

    > own version, that's where closed source always

    > wins





    That's exactly what I HATE about .NET.



    You are all sheeps that look for guidance.



    Having "choice" leads to better productivity, although the road to get there takes longer.



    And btw ... Wicket is not a standard, so nobody will be required to use it unless that someone wants to be more productive.



    But you couldn't understand that.

    And I love all the trafic that www.theserverside.net has.

  • >>Having "choice" leads to better productivity, although the road to get there takes longer.



    kinda contradictive



    I'm sure you haven't heard about patterns and practices

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