From: Jason Foreman <threeve.org@...>
Date: 2005-07-13T13:34:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Article: Ruby on Rails and J2EE: Is there room for both?

On 7/12/05, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
> Aaron Rustad wrote:
> > There is a new article on IBM developerWorks comparing J2EE and Rails
> > at an architectural level. It may be of interest to those who are
> > familiar with J2EE and just getting up to speed on Rails.
> 
> How can an article claiming to discuss J2EE not mention EJBs?  There is
> more to it than servlets and JSPs.
> 
> Where's the comparison of doing transactions? Or distributed
> applications? Or connection pooling? Or message queues?
> 
> 
> James
> --


Agreed.  The article seems to be a very cursory overview of how a
couple of things are done.  There is little mention of most of the EE
aspects of J2EE, probably because they don't really have anything to
compare to in Rails.

Haven't there already been a hundred of this type of comparison
between Rails and XXXX?  When are we going to see articles covering
something more interesting or in depth?  And why is this categorized
as an "Advanced" article?

And not to pick nits, but the OP could have mentioned that he was the
author of said article.


Jason