Web Frameworks of the Future: Flex, GWT, Grails and Rails

Web Frameworks of the FutureFlex, GWT, Rails and GrailsMatt Raiblehttp://raibledesigns.comIntroductions‣ Your experience with web applications?‣ Have you heard of SOFEA or SOUI?‣ Experience with Rails, Grails, GWT or Flex?‣ What do you want to get from this session?‣ Framework Experience: ‣ Struts 1/2, Spring MVC, JSF, Stripes, Tapestry, Wicket, DjangoWho is Matt Raible?‣ Java Blogger since 2002‣ Power user of Java Web Frameworks‣ Author of Spring Live and Pro JSP 2.0‣ Founder of AppFuse (http://appfuse.org) ‣ Member of Java EE 5, JSF 1.2 and Bean Validation Expert Groups‣ Lead UI Architect at LinkedIn‣ Father, Skier, Cyclist and Beer Connoisseurhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/mraibleThe ProblemHow do you choose?Eliminate, Don’t IncludeIt’s not about including choices, it’s about eliminating them.Session Agenda‣ SOFEA and SOUI‣ REST Backend‣ Rails‣ Grails‣ Comparison‣ Rich Frontend‣ Flex‣ GWT‣ Comparison‣ Conclusion and Q & ASOFEA and SOUI‣ SOFEA first introduced by Ganesh Prasad, Rajat Taneja and Vikrant Todankar in Life above the Service Tier on 10/12/2007. ‣ http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=47213‣ SOUI introduced by Nolan Wright and Jeff Haynie in early November. 2007.‣ http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/11/soui-death-of-mvc2 ‣ SOFEA Authors have since formed the Thin Server Architecture Working Group.‣ http://www.thinserverarchitecture.com‣ Nolan and Jeff developed Appcelerator.‣ http://www.appcelerator.org SOFEA Principles‣ Decouple the three orthogonal Presentation Tier processes of Application Download, Presentation Flow and Data Interchange. This is the foundational principle of SOFEA.‣ Explore various Application Download options to exploit usefully contrary trade-offs around client footprint, startup time, offline capability and a number of security-related parameters.‣ Presentation Flow must be driven by a client-side component and never by a server-side component.‣ Data Interchange between the Presentation Tier and the Service Tier must not become the weakest link in the end-to-end application chain of data integrity.‣ Model-View-Controller (MVC) is a good pattern to use to build the Presentation Tier.