From: Mark Alexander Friedgan <hubrix@...>
Date: 2005-07-13T22:27:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Article: Ruby on Rails and J2EE: Is there room for both?

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Our company made a decision to use Rails instead of J2EE. We use Rinda=20
instead of message queues and have not yet found a need for distributed=20
transactions(although that is one part that is missing) EJB's are wonderful=
=20
but really how are they different from models or correctly developed servic=
e=20
classes ?=20

Mark

On 7/12/05, Jason Foreman <threeve.org@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> 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
> > --
>=20
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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?
>=20
> And not to pick nits, but the OP could have mentioned that he was the
> author of said article.
>=20
>=20
> Jason
>=20
>

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