Betterrev re-write in something that works

[Mike Burton]

JEE sounds good on balance. 

Tech evaluation.. is great, but widely used "mission critical" (sorry!) stuff often needs to be a bit "state of the arc"

Best Regards

Mike Burton
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> On 30 Aug 2014, at 18:52, Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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