Re: Mini-rant on Java REST (JAX-RS), JSON, XML, JAXB etc...

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:07:01 -0400
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On 3/8/2013 7:44 PM, Arved Sandstrom wrote:

On 03/08/2013 02:06 PM, Leif Roar Moldskred wrote:

On the other
hand, none of the many frameworks that tries to solve the issue have
exactly whelmed me over either.


As I pointed out before, and I don't think I am far wrong, none of the
frameworks has appreciably saved anyone any labour in close to 2
decades. Given - and this is a big given - something like CSS2+, a CGI
script or servlet producing raw XHTML, per page, would be as productive
as the current modern frameworks.


Well - I did a lot of CGI back then - and I think you are
exaggerating here.

I was very hard to work with.

I'm being something of a shit disturber here, but I think I have some
valid points.


I agree on that.

Web frameworks has gotten more and more complex and even though I
do see significant improvements, then they have not delivered as
promised.

1. The J2EE specs assumed right from the beginning that you'd have
multiple stages of people working on beans. What a joke. Same thing.


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:-)

Arne

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