Betterrev re-write in something that works

[Mike Burton]

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> On 30 Aug 2014, at 19:32, Mike Burton <mikeb at mycosystems.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> 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
> (Sent from my iPhone)
> 
> 
> 
>> 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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