Comments on: A Whole Bunch of Little Stuff http://redmonk.com/cote/2006/03/07/a-whole-bunch-of-little-stuff/ One foot in the muck, the other in utopia Tue, 29 May 2012 14:02:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: christopher baus http://redmonk.com/cote/2006/03/07/a-whole-bunch-of-little-stuff/#comment-76 Thu, 09 Mar 2006 01:08:08 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/wp/?p=31#comment-76 IMHO the backend to AJAX applications matters a lot to the overall performance. Right now I'm putting all my effort into building a webservice backend in Java that supports AJAX amoung other web services. Once you get all the application workflow and the XML configuration nightmares out of Java it actually isn't a bad middle tier development environment.

The concurrency model just isn't there yet for Ruby. I don't know how I could develop this app with out a consistent concurrency model. I'm really happy with Java 1.5 from that perspective. ArrayBlockingQueue alone saved me a lot of headaches and third party library integration.

I think Java is far from dead, but hell I still write code in C++ as well.

-baus

]]> By: Scott http://redmonk.com/cote/2006/03/07/a-whole-bunch-of-little-stuff/#comment-74 Wed, 08 Mar 2006 15:56:55 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/wp/?p=31#comment-74 No input on the open source sys management tools, but I’m very interested in what you come up with on that.

]]> By: Duncan Chapple http://redmonk.com/cote/2006/03/07/a-whole-bunch-of-little-stuff/#comment-75 Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:44:55 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/wp/?p=31#comment-75 The chart that James cites does not show analyst influence. I have replied on his blog and Stephen's. See the original data at http://www.analystequity.com.

]]> By: Cote' http://redmonk.com/cote/2006/03/07/a-whole-bunch-of-little-stuff/#comment-73 Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:29:45 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/wp/?p=31#comment-73 Steve: Damn! I knew you were still a ginger-bread man… I’ll keep hope alive. Some day soon!

Danno: Indeed, as a (consumer) user of an AJAX system the backend is irrelevent. But, from the dork angle — you know, that part of you that wants to take apart and figure out how things work — it’s interesting. Not to mention the fact that it’d be a great boon to the huge Java community if they could get some more involvement in this whole Ajax/Web 2.0 train…or, as I said, maybe they already do ;)

]]> By: Danno http://redmonk.com/cote/2006/03/07/a-whole-bunch-of-little-stuff/#comment-72 Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:04:50 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/wp/?p=31#comment-72 I don’t see why the back-end for an AJAX application matters… I mean, I’m curious about how some of these tools that I use are built, but all I really get to interact with is the outer layer (and maybe an API).

]]> By: stephen ogrady http://redmonk.com/cote/2006/03/07/a-whole-bunch-of-little-stuff/#comment-71 Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:37:45 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/wp/?p=31#comment-71 You'll never get me! :)

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