...and so far so good...
Scott Davis' keynote presentation was great! He covered the whole perspective of differences and similarities between Java and Groovy. He reviewed all of the numbers on open-source (i.e., number of people using Java and Groovy; number of people using Apache over proprietary web servers; number of open source web frameworks over proprietary ones like Coldfusion; etc.) and the importance of open-source. Although there were few mentions of Groovy in the keynote, it definitely was inspirational and made me want to invest in the whole idea of open-source and Groovy.
While Scott does sound like a digital minister, he doesn't condemn anyone’s choice of programming language or web framework. Scott simply sells you on an option instead of on a dogmatic belief. The NFJS conference presenters employ a similar tactic, and they practice what they preach. Currently, I am sitting in on Programming DSLs with Groovy, presented by Venkat Subramaniam, who happens to be quite the programming language polyglot.
After this conference, I am going to gather all of the information that I can on Grails and make a post comparing and contrasting Grails and Seam. These frameworks are built on two separate ideals and I will try to be unbiased and academic in my opinions. I look forward to writing it.
Thu, 29 May 2008 04:38 PM GMT
I look forward to reading your review. I am very active with Grails right now, but that's after trying for several months to work with SEAM first.