Comments on: J2EE vs Grails stitch up or honest mistakes?

By: Moe

Moe — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:27:11 +0000

Marc, is there any good counter comparison presentation or similar online? Writing a paper and I don’t really want to use this document, because of the clear issues you mention with it, other than that it’s also from 2007.

- Moe

By: Marc Palmer

Marc Palmer — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:09:18 +0000

Pablo – there is no problem if you use dynamic scaffolding, it will just do it for you. There is no need to generate scaffolding views unless you want to customize them. Then you’re on your own but its trivial to see from the GSP files how to add more fields etc.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:10:52 +0000

Hi Marc,

you are right on most points (typpos and Groovy inlined code), but I think I understand what they mean by “not clear how to regenerate…”

They seem to be saying that when you change a view or controller yourself, and then you change the model and want to regenerate the controller and views to reflect it, it will overwrite the changes you had already made to them . I’ve been hit by that problem before, but in an earlier version of Grails, and haven’t retested it since… I don’t know what do you have to say about it…

Best regards,
Pablo.

By: Andy Peters

Andy Peters — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:05:16 +0000

Looks like Sun really knows how to represent their customers.

A javascript language? What the heck does that even mean? Should I defend Javascript or Grails here? Arogant comments like that

Why is Sun trying to make developers (their customers) leave their product?

I wasn’t at JavaOne, but is embarrassing to be represented by people who have come out of 8 year long hibernation rock.