Chan's Personal Blog

As of late, I've been screening job candidates at work, and I keep coming across resumes with J2EE on them. It got me wondering what J2EE web development was like, because I heard writing a "hello world" application was horrific for it.

Myron passed along this video of a presentation made at NASA which compares a few web development frameworks.

In short, writing front-end code with J2EE really sucks. A simple form with a database backend took the developer 200+ minutes to create, and his coding involved writing half the application in Java, and the other half in XML configuration files. He had about 500 lines of code to write such a simple application.

With something like Ruby on Rails, he was able to do it in about 50 lines of code, and about 20 minutes?

I'm glad that when I was applying for jobs, I explicitly avoided Java shops.