I’ve used Tapestry 3, Wicket, Echo, and JSF fairly extensively. I’d really recommend you look those over and pick the one that appears the easiest for you, and to most closely fit the way you prefer to work. Of them, the most comfortable for me to work with was Wicket, due to the lightweight nature … Read more
There are probably two major differences: Ruby has elegant, anonymous closures. Rails uses them to good effect. Here’s an example: class WeblogController < ActionController::Base def index @posts = Post.find :all respond_to do |format| format.html format.xml { render :xml => @posts.to_xml } format.rss { render :action => “feed.rxml” } end end end Anonymous closures/lambdas make it … Read more
Web server Web server can refer to either the hardware (the computer) or the software (the computer application) that helps to deliver content that can be accessed through the Internet.1 The primary function of a web server is to deliver web pages on the request to clients. This means delivery of HTML documents and any … Read more
I’m very interested in Scala, but I have not used it yet, so with that caveat, the frameworks I am aware of that are not mentioned in HRJ’s answer (Lift, Sweet, Slinky) are: Scalatra, previously Step (on GitHub) Play 2 (on GitHub) Pinky
Full disclosure: I’m one of the lead developers of Snap. First of all, let’s talk about what Snap is. Right now the Snap team maintains five different projects on hackage: snap-core, snap-server, heist, snap, and xmlhtml. snap-server is a web server that exposes the API defined by snap-core. heist is a templating system. xmlhtml is … Read more