Re: Looks like Grails have new competition

If it's pure java, there is no point in comparing it to Grails.

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Daniel Kimmig <dkimmig@...> wrote:

mykol wrote:
>
> http://www.playframework.org
>
> Pretty much a Grails clone, sans the Groovy. Wonder why the need to
> reinvent
> the wheel. :-|
>
>



I tried Play and I must say it is very nice. They reloading of things is far
superior to Grails, because they use the Eclipse Compiler internally. It is
truely "fix and reload" and not

- fix
- see same error
- restart grails
- see same error
- run grails clean and clear the scriptcache
- run-app
- error resolved


Another benefit is the fact that Play uses Python for the Command-Line
stuff. Everything runs a lot faster. There is no cold-start of the JVM (and
dont get me started on "grails interactive" which fails after three command
invocations due to permGen Errors).


I for one think that this kind of competition is good for Grails, because it
can help Grails to get better. There is are for both frameworks, since
Grails tries to be this perfectly glued combination of Spring, Hibernate,
SiteMesh and GSPs whereas Play is more like Django, RoR, Symfony and
completely says no to the Servlet API. (You can however create a war file of
your play application).
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