Java Needs a CRUD Framework
Filed in archive Application Development by jason on December 02, 2005
starts to lose all the whiz-bang benefits of it.
Including a keyword "scaffold" in a controller and having that automatically generate a framework is great. Entering another command and having that framework saved to disk and based on your controller and model allow a developer to customize the generated framework is a powerful feature as well. However, I find it hard to believe that the ability to do this means "Java is Dead." Give me a break and think about how big Java is right now and how much people are doing with it. Where are all the IDEs for RoR? Does ROR have the large number of libraries that Java has to address the number of issues that it does? I don't think so and I think it will take a long time for Ruby to catch up on those fronts. Much longer then it would for the Java community to create its own CRUD framework or have an IDE come along with a wizard of some sort to accomplish such things.
What prompts me to write about this is Rick Hightower's latest article titled JSF CRUD Framework. It is easy for me to say that it would be no problem to create such a framework because as the saying goes "anything it possible if your not going to do it" but there are a lot of smart and hard working people in the Java community. After reading Rick Hightower's article and playing with Sun's Java Studio Creator that allows WYSIWYG creation of Java based web applications I think RoR is cool but not a threat to Java. IMHO RoR is not the "next big thing" it only looks that way since we are all looking so hard for what that is and hoping it will get here soon. Those people who have a vested interest in seeing Java continue to be a major player in the industry are not going to rollover and die. When people tell me RoR means the end of Java my care factor is low and yours should be as well. Permalink: Java Needs a CRUD Framework
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