Friday, June 29, 2007

Seam 2.0 beta with Groovy Support

Just wanted to say congrats to the Seam guys who have added Groovy support to the latest 2.0 beta. I know they (Gavin, Emmanuel etc.) have been putting a lot of hard work into making Seam easy to use whilst still trying to remain true to the Java EE standards and I think adding dynamic language support, in the shape of Groovy, is a great step in the right direction.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, one of the reasons the Java eco-system is so fantastic is you have a choice. Sometimes too much of a choice, but it is a wonderful space to be in.

3 comments:

Paul Barry said...

Are there certain types of applications that seam is better for than grails, and other types of applications that grails is better for than seam? Choice is only a good thing in the case where there is a reason to use one versus the other, other than developer preference.

Graeme Rocher said...

I don't really want this post to turn into a debate about what is better, but I guess if your organisation is purely standards based then Seam would be of great interest.

Markus Jais said...

I think this is great news. I've used JSF for some projects and I like it but it has some rough edges. Seam seams to be the perfect answer.
Added Groovy support is another reason to look into Seam.
Gavin King already wrote on Java killer software with Hibernate. I think he did it again with Seam.

The only thing that is still missing (or is not perfect yet) is first class Netbeans support for both Groovy and Seam.
But Eclipse is great too and has now a great Groovy Plugin and with the upcoming Red Hat Developer Studio probably also something great for Seam.

I will still follow Grails development too :-)