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Java doing my head in

I had no idea how awful Spring or JSP or whatever the heck it is this Java web-app is using was. I tried to add a button and a new page with a form on it and ended up editing something like 10 different files. All I got was a big null pointer exception error page. Even ASP.NET is simpler than this. God forbid I ever get to use J2EE.

I am tempted to get JRuby going and embed a small Ruby on Rails app within the JSP app. Nobody would notice and I am dead sure I can do all of that faster than adding one page using Spring and JSP.

And Eclipse is a PITA in comparison with the loveliness that TextMate is.

Enterprisey. Shoot the people who think everything has to be enterprisey. Seriously. Up. Against. A. Wall.

This entry was posted on Monday, February 5th, 2007 at 2:30 pm and is filed under AAA, Ruby on Rails, java, jsp, spring. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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    I have to agree. I too found myself spending far too long in JSP/Spring hell when all I wanted to do was make some trivial changes to a web page. It is true that this is new technology to me and maybe it will take a little more time to learn to appreciate the upside (if there is one) but I'm not getting that warm-and-fuzzy feeling ...

    First impressions last ... and quite frankly, I ain't impressed!
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    I have to say Paul that I completely agree with your sentiments. I remember my first touch on JSP development and how shocked I was regarding it's complexity compared to server-side jscript on IIS that I had used most recently before that. The whole snobby attitude towards development is in need of a facelift. I remember about 8 years ago being laughed out of it when I suggested that HTML apps would take over within 10 years. The reason I saw it happening was simplicity of development and deployment. Sadly though the snobbs of development sank their teeth into it and put heavyweight processes and containers in place again, stiffling the ease of development. Complexity of design and deployment should never be confused with app scalability and robustness, one does not mean the other!
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    Agree, completely.

    Eclipse is an abomination next to the fast, elegant TextMate.

    The really annoying thing is that Java could be a useful web app language if it wasn't so bogged down in such pointless (and largely unused) architecture.
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    Agree 100% with your comments on Enterprise Java (and this is from somebody who makes his living out of it). Way too complex for the simple stuff. And projects need to start out simple then grow over time.

    Current angle on this is (J)Ruby. The Ruby part gives me a quick start , plus ability to host pretty much anywhere (it can be hard /expensive to find Java hosting). The JRuby bit means that I can run in the Java Virtual Machine i.e. it gives me a clear migration path if I need to scale.

    Just don't diss Eclipse. We've been together 5 years now (pre version 1) and for Project's I couldn't do without it. For mucking around with simple files however you're better off using --Select Editor of Choice here--

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