1. Web Development in
Java
Trends and Technologies
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2. About Speaker
• Dmitry Buzdin
• C.T.Co Software Architect
• Java User Group Latvia
• Agile Latvia
• Coding in Java for Money
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3. The Question
• Java + Web = ?
• Demo
• The best Java Web Framework announced
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4. Today
• Most of the public Web sites are in PHP
• Java is for “enterprises”
• Enterprises are inefficient
• Is Java inefficient?...
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5. Is Java Dead for Web?
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6. What’s the Problem?
• Layered nightmare
• Jar hell
• Boiling complexity
• Enterprise insanity
• Xml madness
• No code without IDE
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7. Java Layered Architecture XIV cent.
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8. So Many Options...
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9. Question?
• Would you pick Java for your next cool
web project?
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10. Java is Cool but...
• One-man team
• I have to deliver tomorrow
• Productivity is what matters...
• Leave Java for enterprises where it belongs
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11. Obvious Choice
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12. What People Choose?
• Groovy
• Ruby
• Python
• Scala
• PHP
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13. What People Want?
• Instant code refresh
• Convention over configuration
• Full-stack solution
• Components and extensions
• Ajax
• REST
• Productivity!
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14. Seen Anything Like That
in Java?
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15. Introducing
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16. DEMO
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17. What We Have Seen
• Dead simple
• Productivity delivered
• Old idioms thrown away
• Builds on experience of other frameworks
• Caution - Play is not a toy!
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18. Check List
• instant code refresh
• convention over configuration
• full-stack solution
• components and extensions
• ajax
• REST
• productivity!
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19. The Best?
• Play is great framework, but not the best
• The best Java Web Framework is...
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20. The Best Java Web
Framework
An
Empty
Jar
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21. Conclusions
• Java is suitable for doing Web
• Java evolves (slowly)
• I have picked-up Play for my next home
project...
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22. What Should You Do?
• Learn several Web frameworks
• Learn dynamic language
• Know Java bright and dark sides
• Know Java boundaries and how to push them
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23. Thank You!
http://buzdin.blogspot.com/
http://www.playframework.org/
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