Betterrev re-write in something that works

[Martijn Verburg]

Drop Wizard might be - but I want to avoid the same issue we had with
Play/Akka and its ecosystem - which is/was that developers struggled to
pick up that stack as well as the core application itself.  I'm concerned
that there's a few Red Bus factors, e.g. The build (me), knowledge of Play
(sort of a couple of us), Akka (again a few). We've spent far to many hack
days explaining the core tech as opposed to building functionality. I think
if we want broader volunteer adoption we need to go with a more common dare
I say it stds based stack.

I've calmed down somewhat since nearly rage quitting on Friday ;-).  I'll
give a move to Java EE 7 a go with Ben (he's recently done a project in
anger on there, so combined with my JAva EE 6 javacountdown knowledge we
should be able to port it).  I'll do this is in a separate branch of course
and I may yet bravely return to the Play version (but since it's completely
broken our CRUD with the latest release, colour me not so impressed).

Hand on heart - I take the blame for this, it's the sort of tech evaluation
that we preach which we didn't run ourselves for this project.


Cheers,
Martijn


On 30 August 2014 11:15, Mani Sarkar <sadhak001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Martijn, Mario,
>
> I'll be happy to help - lets chat at the next hackday if not before that
> at the next LJC event.
>
> @Martijn - are DropWizard or Spring-boot viable options ?
>
> Cheers,
> Mani
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> The project is on BitBucket - AdoptOpenJDK org, very happy to have
>> volunteers - but I'll need a solid day with a Java EE person to port it
>> first (I'm familiar enough with Java EE - but a migration is faster with
>> an
>> extra pair of eyes).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martijn
>>
>>
>> On 29 August 2014 18:25, Mario Torre <neugens.limasoftware at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > On monday I'll go to visit my university, perhaps I can find somebody
>> > interested in helping out, seems like a fun project.
>> >
>> > <lazy-mode>
>> > Can you share the link again?
>> > </lazy-mode>
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Mario
>> > Il 29/ago/2014 18:50 "Martijn Verburg" <martijnverburg at gmail.com> ha
>> > scritto:
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> The Play/Scala/Akka/Scala Templating architecture has brought us much
>> pain
>> >> and suffering for very little gain.  Add to that TypeSafe's attitude of
>> >> breaking everything on each minor upgrade is making me thing about a
>> port
>> >> to Java EE.
>> >>
>> >> Are there any Java EE proficient folks on this list that can help me
>> port
>> >> our existing project over?
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Martijn
>> >>
>> >
>>
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