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Ruby on Rails and J2EE: Room for Both?

Posted by timothy on from the floor-topping-and-dessert-wax dept.

Wayne writes "Ruby on Rails is a relatively new Web application framework built on the Ruby language. It is billed as an alternative to existing enterprise frameworks, and its goal, in a nutshell, is to make your life -- or at least the Web development aspects of it -- easier. This article will contrast the Rails framework against a typical J2EE implementation using common open source tools that are regularly found in enterprise applications."

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  1. Nitro kills Django dead by CatGrep · · Score: 2, Informative

    The future is here.
    Django is now old news...

    Yeah, Nitro is in Ruby. But considering that RoR has opened the Ruby door so that many people have been learning Ruby lately ( and also considering that it's quite easy to go from either Perl or Python to Ruby) that's not a problem. Excellent Ruby web programming frameworks are now popping up like mushrooms after a Fall rain.

  2. Re:I've not yet used Ruby by G-Licious! · · Score: 2, Informative

    Speaking of Python, make that room for three.

    (Perhaps even 4 with Zope, I guess)