Rick Bradley posted a great case study about a big “Enterprise” Java project and their change to Ruby on Rails.
So, bottom line from where we sit: the guys complaining that reported 10:1 savings over Java was bullsht were right on target: 10:1 is way too low from what we’re seeing.
Make sure to read it and show it to the Java guys who still claim that Rails is not enterprise ready and does not save you much development time in the long run.
Even as many people in the Java community start to admit that EBJ 2 is a mess and XML may not be the Golden Hammer, one of their new favorite pseudo-lightweight tools, JBoss+EJB3+Hibernate, is still not much better:
Note that I haven’t even mentioned to this point the app server (JBoss),
which includes a few lines of XML complexity of its own:
& Mon Oct 10 10:49:57 jrbradle <at> rick
~/svn/phoenix/srv$ find . -type f -name ‘.xml’ | xargs wc -l | grep total
44472 total
I just can’t agree enough with Rick, especially since I’m working on a Java5+EJB3+JBossHibernateEcho2 project and progress is very slow.
