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NetBeans 6 + JSR 311 RESTful Web services plugin + GlassFish v2 UR1 with Jersey + JPA Unit + JSP/Servlet for GUI administering + RESTful Web services generated from Entity classes replaced Ruby 1.8.6 + Rails 2.0 + Mongrel 1.1.1 for a RESTful toolkit. |
Hi Arun the primary impetus to move was the lack of effective concurrency within the rails core, and general concerns over the scalability of that framework in a scenario in which RESTful services are fronting more complex Enterprise resource operations. In very simple terms within a rails controller, it's very messy breaking out worker threads and managing front-and-back end sessions (i.e. something more than rails fronting a database). There are some other reasons like XML schema support (within Ruby) and XSLT support - but the Glassfish/Jersey combo seemed to offer a more suitable platform to grow into the high capacity role I have it tagged for. Still evaluating...
Posted by Stew Welbourne on January 10, 2008 at 06:28 AM PST #