why aren't more people using Grails? [closed] - grails

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I've been learning Groovy & Grails recently, and in terms of developer productivity it seems to be light years ahead of other Java solutions (Spring, Struts, EJB, JSF). If I search monster.ca, for either Groovy or Grails, 0 matches are returned, which suggest Grails isn't doing too well in terms of adoption.
I realise that:
Grails is relatively new and adoption takes time
Success of a technology depends on more than just it's technical merits (e.g. marketing $)
Search results on monster.ca are at best a very rough proxy for global adoption. It's possible that lots of people are using it, just not in Canada, or Canadian companies that are using it simply aren't hiring at the moment
Are there other reasons why it hasn't been adopted to the extent it seems to "deserve"?

There are probably more people using Grails than you think. Job boards show you what are the skills people are looking for. Grails is fairly new and there are not a lot of people experienced with it out on the job market.
Grails and in particular Groovy are very close to Java. A few quick lessons in Groovy and a Java developer and quickly feel at home. You can very easily take a vanilla Java developer posting and put that person on into a position developing with grails.
I would say that you will see more Groovy/Grails postings in the future as more Java shops adopt these technologies.

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Are there any high level explanations of how Zend Framework 2 all fits together? [closed]

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I am currently playing around with Zend Framework 2.
Do any of you know of any high level explanations of how Zend Framework 2 all fits together?
I am not talking about a tutorial which shows you how to quickly get a website up and running using ZF2; I mean an easy to read "behind the scenes" guide which explains which code does what. This could be a simple explanation step by step of how ZF2 starts a project, loads each module, does the correct routing and then sends the correct output to the user.
I know it is possible to step through all the code using the debugger, but for beginners this is very painful without first understanding ZF2's architecture.
Does this exist?
Possibly even some sort of architecture diagram or UML?
Thank you.
I watched this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsOrT1R6IQ0
It basically goes over the DI, ServiceManager and EventManager and explains the theory behind the use of modules. It is quite long (45 mins or so) but it did give me a good general overview.
Hope that helps a bit :)
Most of what you are looking for (not all by any means) can be found in the Zend/MVC component reference.
However it is not very concise and user friendly.

The difference between murder, puppet, chef [closed]

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Is there someone who had the experience of using all the three techs?
I found that murder is a twitter's open source project for code deploys,
it uses BitTorrent to reach a high speed of distributing files
but puppet and chef are also used for software distribution.
can any one give a brief introduction to this three?
Disclaimer: I am one of the Puppet developers.
Murder is a file distribution strategy: it is really, really good at getting files (and especially large files) to a whole lot of machines really fast. It integrates with other tools, like capistrano, for actually taking action to do something beyond copy files around.
Both Puppet and Chef are, at this level, almost identical: they are both tools that take a description of how the machine should be, and then turn that into actions to make it so.
You can deploy files with them both, but they are very much classic HTTP or rsync style "copy the file to here" tools. They don't implement any P2P data transfer optimization or anything like that at this stage.
So, they can both do way more than murder, but they are much less good at "get this file on 10,000 machines", and much better at "make this machine the way it should be".
You would use murder in conjunction with some other deployment strategy, and Puppet or Chef might form part of that - but neither would replace the other.

Why so many non-Ruby developers built Rails-like frameworks inspired in Ruby on Rails? [closed]

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Rails inspired:
PHP developers to write cakePHP,
JavaScript developers to write Railway.JS
and Python developers to write Django (I'm not sure about this one).
Why so many non-Ruby developers built Rails-like frameworks inspired in Ruby on Rails?
(I'm not very sure if some of the frameworks I mentioned above were written before Rails)
Django was released on Jul 2005; Ruby on Rails came out a year earlier.
You don't mention Grails for Java; it's based on Spring, Hibernate, and Groovy.
I don't think there's anything unique about Ruby or any homage going on. It says that developing CRUD-based web apps is a problem that's common to lots of languages. It's natural that someone would try to solve the problem using convention over coding in their favorite.
I wouldn't say Django is inspired by Rails. Those two frameworks are quite different in several ways: Django does not have Rails-like controllers, its query API is very different compared to Rails, and the views are also different (and IMHO much better that Rails' - the template language, real template inheritance). And Django does not follow the RESTful way of doing CRUD.

What Nutch is all about? [closed]

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Im going to make my own search engine.
When searching about search engine, crawler, and so on, I confused about Nutch.
I don’t understand what is Nutch. Is it for internal use like Lucene (correct me if Im wrong) or a framework for creating a search engine (example:google, bing, yahoo)?
Nutch is a full featured search engine - it can crawl external web sites, and it understands and respects robots.txt.
http://nutch.apache.org/about.html
Overview Nutch is open source
web-search software. It builds on
Lucene and Solr, adding web-specifics,
such as a crawler, a link-graph
database, parsers for HTML and other
document formats, etc.
Nutch can run on a single machine, but
gains a lot of its strength from
running in a Hadoop cluster
The system can be enhanced (eg other
document formats can be parsed) using
a plugin mechanism.
For more information about Nutch,
please see the Nutch wiki.
Nutch is a ready-made, configurable web crawler with a Java Servlet for performing searches. If you wanted to do this as a project, Nutch probably does too much since all that's left is creating the pages for entering searches and displaying results.

JAX-WS with JAXB tutorial [closed]

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I'm getting started in developing web services using JAX-WS. I'm trying to implement classes I can send between my service and client using JAXB, but having trouble getting it to work.
I've tried following the example at this site but cannot seem to get it to work. After following the instructions, the test page that's displayed doesn't have any way of defining the Die objects as is suggested by the article.
All of this is very new to me, so I'm really not sure where to go. I've checked the WSDL file linked from the test page, and my best guess is that the JAXB is not working properly as I don't see the Die class or its properties mentioned anywhere.
A good, fully worked example would be very beneficial. Does anyone know where one can be found? If it's any help, I'm working in Netbeans.
Thanks!
Here is a step by step how to for jax-ws.
http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/websvc/jax-ws.html
If you google netbeans web services you will find many examples.
Here is an excellent JAX-WS tutorial for beginners. http://java.globinch.com/enterprise-java/web-services/jax-ws/java-jax-ws-tutorial-develop-web-services-clients-consumers/
The tutorial explains how to develop web service and consumer without using a Java EE container.

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