Enterprise Application Frameworks (day 1)
Host: Eberhard Wolff
Software developers are flooded with application stacks for writing data base backed web applications. Some are standardized, some are defacto-standard, and/or open source. It is difficult to choose which one is best suited for a given task; each one represents different trade offs - particular with regards to speed of development vs. flexibility/extensibility.
Recent years have seen a significant rise in the likes of Ruby on Rails, Grails, Spring, Seam, and MonoRails; and then we still have the standard Java EE and .NET platforms. In this track we take a breadth-first approach to examine - and compare - some of these frameworks, with two specific perspectives: Day one focuses on aspects of presentation and flow and how they compare across these different technologies, whereas the subject of day two is state management and persistence.
We're comparing apples and oranges here; but what else can we do?
