Posts Tagged ‘Eclipse’
Play – a Java framework for web applications
Not long ago i came across this cool Java framework for building your own web applications. Actually I think someone posted it at Twitter ( @playframework ). At first i saw the invitational presentation which you can find here or at the framework’s page.
First Impression
This looked like fun and was very similar to what I’m used to in Symfony based web applications. So I said “what the hell” and started off with the tutorial, most of the things seemed obvious and I was pleased with the concept of writing in Java and having the ability to use any Java library I would like to.
IDE
But wait, it gets even cooler. The guys developing this framework prepared some tasks to make your project integrate with your preferable Java IDE. If it’s NetBeans, like it was in my case, or Eclipse this is a matter of typing one command in your console.
All the keys you need to use …
The coolest thing about it I think is that while developing a web application in Play you get to use all sorts of solutions like Hibernate, OpenId, JUnit, templates based on Groovy and integrate them easily with your project.
Fresh prince
Although this framework seems to be a reasonably “fresh” thing on the web (version 1.0 wright now), it has quite a good looking portfolio to speak for itself. I think this will aspire to be an awesome lite Java framework for all agile projects and web applications. Good luck and congrats to the Play team.
A critical hit for the OpenSource movement
Larry Ellison (Oracle) the Devil himself ?
Today I’ve read that Oracle has bought out the Sun company. That’s a big issue in the IT world. I personally think that a lot of things are going to change, and not really for the better outcome.
IBM was interested in buying Sun as well but they eventually lost, and they are the company who is more into OpenSource than Oracle. I don’t want to sound like “Oracle is the devil incarnated”, but they’re known for takin the best solutions from open source projects, making it proprietary and making gazillions of $ out of it. Read the rest of this entry »
