My thoughts, ideas, questions and concerns on technology, sports, music and life tag:paulbarry.com,2007:Paulbarry.com PaulBarry.com 2008-11-06T18:21:28-05:00 Paul Barry mail@paulbarry.com urn:uuid:e32e1076-5b48-45ed-b2ea-f884472d44f6 2008-07-23T12:17:58-04:00 2008-07-23T12:17:58-04:00

<p>It's really good to see a <a href="http://www.pragprog.com/titles/fdstr/stripes">book</a> being published by the <a href="http://www.pragprog.com">Pragmatic Programmers</a> on the <a href="http://stripesframework.org">Stripes</a>, even if it is too little, too late. I wrote <a href="http://paulbarry.com/articles/2006/07/11/stripes-is-the-new-rails">an article on Stripes</a> a few years ago, and actually, I still like how Stripes handles mapping request parameters to an object graph, but since then I have discovered the benefits of dynamic languages like Ruby, so I would never consider using a framework like Stripes, just because it means programming in Java. When I was doing Java, I felt that Stripes was a much better framework than WebWork/Struts, but for some reason flew under the radar. In fact, this blog is built using Stripes. Stripes' creator Tim Fennell always did an excellent job answering questions on the mailing list and deserved more recognition from the Java community as a whole.</p> <p>It's surprising to see this book coming out now. Frankly, straight Java as a web development language is yesterday's technology, the Cobol of our generation. The JVM is still alive an well, with many great options, such as JRuby, Groovy, Scala and the best of them all, <a href="http://clojure.org">Clojure</a>. I would love to see a Pragmatic Programmer book on Clojure, just to give some more attention to Clojure, because it is such a great language. Anyway, congrats to Tim Fennell, Frederic Daoud and the Stripes team on finally getting some acknowledgment for building a great framework and a great community. </p>

<p>It's really good to see a <a href="http://www.pragprog.com/titles/fdstr/stripes">book</a> being published by the <a href="http://www.pragprog.com">Pragmatic Programmers</a> on the <a href="http://stripesframework.org">Stripes</a>, even if it is too little, too late. I wrote <a href="http://paulbarry.com/articles/2006/07/11/stripes-is-the-new-rails">an article on Stripes</a> a few years ago, and actually, I still like how Stripes handles mapping request parameters to an object graph, but since then I have discovered the benefits of dynamic languages like Ruby, so I would never consider using a framework like Stripes, just because it means programming in Java. When I was doing Java, I felt that Stripes was a much better framework than WebWork/Struts, but for some reason flew under the radar. In fact, this blog is built using Stripes. Stripes' creator Tim Fennell always did an excellent job answering questions on the mailing list and deserved more recognition from the Java community as a whole.</p> <p>It's surprising to see this book coming out now. Frankly, straight Java as a web development language is yesterday's technology, the Cobol of our generation. The JVM is still alive an well, with many great options, such as JRuby, Groovy, Scala and the best of them all, <a href="http://clojure.org">Clojure</a>. I would love to see a Pragmatic Programmer book on Clojure, just to give some more attention to Clojure, because it is such a great language. Anyway, congrats to Tim Fennell, Frederic Daoud and the Stripes team on finally getting some acknowledgment for building a great framework and a great community. </p> Jeff Heon urn:uuid:a20a5111-c2d5-4ae4-8b5d-17c0dd070e67 2008-10-28T13:29:15-04:00 2008-10-28T13:29:15-04:00 Well, a pragmatic book on Clojure is in the making 8)<br/><br/>Programming Clojure:<br/>http://pragprog.com/titles/shcloj/programming-clojure<br/><br/>