Comments on: Busy Java Developer: Stop, Look, Listen and Live

By: Merlyn Albery-Speyer

Merlyn Albery-Speyer — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:28:58 +0000

+1 Domain Driven Design – a reminder that OO is hard to get right, and that it’s all about clear communication

By: Merlyn Albery-Speyer

Merlyn Albery-Speyer — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:27:15 +0000

Stimulating stuff!

+1 Java 6+ irrelevancy
+1 Groovy – we’ll see an explosion of versatile groovy-based APIs in the next year I bet
+1 Grails for CRUD web apps
-1 Gant – I don’t think Gant offers enough over Ant. I think we’re still looking for the ant alternative. To win out a build system needs to be JVM based (i.e. not Buildr unfortunately) AND intuitive to use (oops Maven). Gradle might pan out, but I think the winner has yet to come.
-1 Scala It doesn’t have any of the lure that Haskell has, nor any of the uptime or scalability foundations of Erlang. I’ve tried to get into it but it doesn’t grab me. That’s bad if even 10% of others feel the same way.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:59:41 +0000

Great post. I couldn’t agree with you more. After attending Java One this year it seems like this was one of the underlying themes of the conference.

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