Web Development in Java

Trends and Technologies

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About Speaker

• Dmitry Buzdin

• C.T.Co Software Architect

• Java User Group Latvia

• Agile Latvia

• Coding in Java for Money

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The Question

• Java + Web = ?

• Demo

• The best Java Web Framework announced

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Today

• Most of the public Web sites are in PHP

• Java is for “enterprises”

• Enterprises are inefficient

• Is Java inefficient?...

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Is Java Dead for Web?

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What’s the Problem?

• Layered nightmare

• Jar hell

• Boiling complexity

• Enterprise insanity

• Xml madness

• No code without IDE

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Java Layered Architecture XIV cent.

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So Many Options...

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Question?

• Would you pick Java for your next cool web project?

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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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Obvious Choice

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What People Choose?

• Groovy

• Ruby

• Python

• Scala

• PHP

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What People Want?

• Instant code refresh

• Convention over configuration

• Full-stack solution

• Components and extensions

• Ajax

• REST

• Productivity!

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Seen Anything Like That in Java?

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Introducing

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DEMO

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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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Check List

• instant code refresh

• convention over configuration

• full-stack solution

• components and extensions

• ajax

• REST

• productivity!

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The Best?

• Play is great framework, but not the best

• The best Java Web Framework is...

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The Best Java Web Framework

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Conclusions

• Java is suitable for doing Web

• Java evolves (slowly)

• I have picked-up Play for my next home project...

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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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Thank You!

http://www.playframework.org/http://buzdin.blogspot.com/

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