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My favorite project to work on was a modular monolith. It was a single deployable but each component (vertical) had its own maven-module.
by therealdrag0 7y ago
My favorite project to work on was a modular monolith. It was a single deployable but each component (vertical) had its own maven-module.
- tootie 7y agoWhen developers complain about being verbose and not a great language for coders, I counter that it doesn't exist to solve programming problems, but rather organizational problems. The killer feature that launched Java wasn't crap like checked exceptions, it was javadoc. Strict, self-documenting APIs are 10X more valuable than any intrinsic language feature.
- timwaagh 7y agoi dont care about it not being great. its good enough as a language. but maven... but websphere... java is a hellish platform that ordinarily would not win from interpreted languages or those which focus on fast compilation. But it runs literally everywhere, including your toaster, but more importantly on mainframes which also run the real mvp aka Cobol. run once, run anywhere remains a killer feature no other platform has replicated as well.
- tootie 7y agoMaven is great. Better than any competitor I've seen. WebSphere is long dead and was crappy even when it was new.
- sk5t 7y agoI think you are putting Java in the pillory today, for the worst aspects of its ecosystem a decade ago. Outside of perhaps stodgy banks, technical folks are not choosing to run their JVM projects today on Websphere. Gradle is pretty darn nice.
- timwaagh 7y agoIt's what my employer uses, they dont really have much choice because they're running on IBM hardware.
- james_s_tayler 7y agoGood old websphere. Good old maven. Yeah. Not my favorite things either. Luckily there are alternatives in the Java world.
- closeparen 7y agoHow does that solve the deployment-rollback problem?
- i_dursun 7y agoYou can still deploy a new version of the monolith with a downgraded module.