Monorail competition

[bdaniel7]

Quote from Pro ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework, page 14.
http://www.amazon.com/Pro-ASP-NET-MVC-3-Framework/dp/1430234040


"MonoRail is an earlier .NET-based MVC web application platform,
created as part of the open source
Castle project and in development since 2003. In many ways, MonoRail
acted as the prototype for
ASP.NET MVC. MonoRail demonstrated how a Rails-like MVC architecture
could be built on top of
ASP.NET and established patterns, practices, and terminology that are
used throughout Microsoft’s
implementation.
We don’t see MonoRail as a serious competitor. It is probably the most
popular .NET web
application platform created outside Redmond, and it did achieve
reasonably widespread adoption in its
day. However, since the launch of ASP.NET MVC, the MonoRail project is
rarely heard of. The
momentum of enthusiasm and innovation in the .NET web development
world is now focused on
ASP.NET MVC. "

How do you comment on that? :)

[Henry Conceição]

There are some mistakes on this excerpt:

- mr was started on the end of 2004/beginning 2005 (as fair I can remember).
- innovation on asp.net mvc.

But he's right about competition: mr or any other oss project can
compete on adoption with ms on it's own land. the technical arguments
doesn't mater..

Cheers,
Henry Conceição

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[hammett]

I do think that ASP.NET MVC got a few things right, and unfortunately
copied a few wrong ideas from MR. In other aspects (areas), they
managed to make it worst.

That said, I agree with Henry. The herd will use whatever shows up in
ScottGu's blog, without giving much thought.

2011/10/14 Henry Conceição <henry.c...@gmail.com>:

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[Tomek Pluskiewicz]

Hi

I don't know too much about ASP.NET MVC. What is it's problem with areas?

Tomasz

[hammett]

They force you to create a class for each area, instead of having the
information per controller.

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