ActiveWeb (RoR in Java) - anyone tried it?

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

Just came across this  http://code.google.com/p/activeweb/ It looks more like RoR. Looking at the document, I'm quite impressed. Anyone had any experience with it to compare it to Play!? TIA

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

On Wednesday, 20 June 2012 15:04:03 UTC+5:30, R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah wrote:

Just came across this  http://code.google.com/p/activeweb/ It looks more like RoR. Looking at the document, I'm quite impressed. Anyone had any experience with it to compare it to Play!? TIA

While searching further on the topic, I found another framework http://www.scooterframework.com/ via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1197587 

Both ActiveWeb and Scooter Framework look better than Play! -- as per the features in documentation, IMHO. I'm so curious, if any of you've tried all these frameworks, please share some thoughts on real productivity. TIA 

[Dominik Dorn]

From looking at active web, I don't see what should be better there
than in play.

as for you posting _always_ about other frameworks, it makes me wonder
if you have
ever really created a project in play or are just here to do bashing.

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

On Wednesday, 20 June 2012 22:17:02 UTC+5:30, Dominik Dorn wrote:

From looking at active web, I don't see what should be better there
than in play.

    Well, if you look closer on the docs, you'll find that it's closer to RoR with ActiveRecords, default routes, coding standards and naming conventions--feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. If you look Rocket Framework's doc http://www.scooterframework.com/docs/lovely_features.html , some of these may be possible through Japid and Rhythm--but none of these are available in Play! by default. By merely looking at the docs, both ActiveWeb and Rocket Framework seem to lack Auth and ACL; but they seem to have more features--especially closer to RoR.

 

as for you posting _always_ about other frameworks, it makes me wonder
if you have
ever really created a project in play or are just here to do bashing.

Hmm... while it's good to post such defamatory remarks--to gain ingroup acceptance, it won't help you really. I know bunch of CakePHP aficionados and bullies who now hide their PHP skills and claiming to be Rails and Python experts. FWIW, I came to Play! only because of Scala (at that time, I didn't like Java) and JVM. While trying Play! Scala, I came across weird compiler errors. So, I switched to Play! Java and found it much better as there's no claimed benefits of LOC reduction nor productivity increase in Play! Scala. We used Japid, Deadbolt, SecureSocial and jqvalidate; and happy with the result. Since, the buzz was that RoR is dead due to clientapp evolution, I looked at Node.js and Backbone.js and quite happy with its result. While planning to try Meteor and Vertx.io, accidentally came across ActiveWeb and Rocket Framework. If you have any good comparisons, please share.

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

Oops... goofed up... Should read "Scooter Framework"--instead of Rocket Framework