[GR-Jug] [J2EE or PHP]

[Carlus Henry]

JG,

Thanks for sharing such great and a wealth of information.  I am very
excited with the possibilities of running a dynamic typed / scripting
language like PHP in the JEE environment.

I am curious.  I would like to hear more about why you think that Groovy is
going to rival Ruby on Rails? or even PHP for that matter?  Well, I am
wondering if you think that the early adoption of Ruby is going to be a
roadblock to the adoption of Groovy.

Does anyone else have an opinion of Groovy and whether they like it or not?
Is anyone using the new scripting languages professionally (PHP, Ruby,
Groovy)?

Thanks
Carlus

On 5/25/06, jgerrits at ci.grand-rapids.mi.us <jgerrits at ci.grand-rapids.mi.us>
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> So, on to the question of JEE or PHP.
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> I guess it doesn't really matter since you can run PHP on JEE, and it's
> faster too :)
> http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=38144
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> And since support for dynamic languages is being added to Java (
> http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=292), the need for these other languages
> becomes moot.  Just look at what we already have available - Jython, JRuby,
> Beanshell, Groovy, etc.  They give you the power of Java with the faster
> development time of these other languages.  Hell, you can now (almost) run
> rails in JRuby (
> http://headius.blogspot.com/2006/05/and-they-said-jruby-was-dead.html,
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=109).
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> I will say that I like Groovy a lot.  Normally if I needed a script to
> connect to a database and generate a plain text file I might use Perl, but
> Groovy does it in the same amount of code or less.  And I personally think
> that Grails is going to give Rails a run for it's money.
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> JG
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