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Xitrum - fully loaded Scala web framework

34 points by johnx123-up 15y ago

johnx123-up 15y ago
Useful links: 1. Xitrum projects https://groups.google.com/group/xitrum-framework/browse_thread/thread/99d11503d6a4c572 https://groups.google.com/group/xitrum-framework/browse_thre... 2. Xitrum github (for features) https://github.com/ngocdaothanh/xitrum https://github.com/ngocdaothanh/xitrum 3. Xitrum vs Play! https://groups.google.com/group/xitrum-framework/browse_thread/thread/82bc8f85ffc87325 https://groups.google.com/group/xitrum-framework/browse_thre...
drKarl 15y ago
How does it compare to Play! ?
- johnx123-up 15y ago
  Xitrum is more complete than Play! From the author https://groups.google.com/group/xitrum-framework/browse_thread/thread/82bc8f85ffc87325 https://groups.google.com/group/xitrum-framework/browse_thre...
  - noelwelsh 15y ago
    That reply seems to reference Play 1.x, which is a very different beast from Play 2 (I've just completed a project using the Play 2 beta). I haven't used Xitrium. I think Play 2 is very good if you want a RESTful web application and you want to render pages on the server-side (which is largely what I wanted for my project). For my current project I've found we're shifting to client-side rendering, and then these kind of web frameworks are redundant, with BlueEyes being a much better fit.
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    - drKarl 15y ago
      I've used Play! with haml-js, rendering haml templates on client-side.
    - ngocdaothanh 15y ago
      Xitrum tries to catch up with latest practices in web development. It supports client-side rendering style by integrating Knockout.js. See the Todos demo: https://github.com/ngocdaothanh/xitrum-demos/blob/master/src/main/scala/quickstart/controller/Todos.scala https://github.com/ngocdaothanh/xitrum-demos/blob/master/src... https://github.com/ngocdaothanh/xitrum-demos/blob/master/src/main/view/scalate/quickstart/controller/Todos/index.jade https://github.com/ngocdaothanh/xitrum-demos/blob/master/src... You can focus on working with JS objects on browser side, and with Scala case classes on server side. Xitrum converts data back and forth for you. APIs for Knockout.js will be improved more in the future.
dkhenry 15y ago
Xitrum looks interesting and I am really happy tyo see another option for Java/Scala that isn't tied to the J2EE platform, but this gives me no compelling reason to switch from play in fact it seems there is some downsides. It doesn't use Scala as its templating language and there appears no way to deploy to an Application Server. It does seem like they are making it easier then play to do Async services, but I will have to wait for Play 2.0 to make a final call on that.

34 points by johnx123-up 15y ago

Useful links: 1. Xitrum projects https://groups.google.com/group/xitrum-framework/browse_thread/thread/99d11503d6a4c572 https://groups.google.com/group/xitrum-framework/browse_thre... 2. Xitrum github (for features) https://github.com/ngocdaothanh/xitrum https://github.com/ngocdaothanh/xitrum 3. Xitrum vs Play! https://groups.google.com/group/xitrum-framework/browse_thread/thread/82bc8f85ffc87325 https://groups.google.com/group/xitrum-framework/browse_thre...

drKarl 15y ago

How does it compare to Play! ?

johnx123-up 15y ago
Xitrum is more complete than Play! From the author https://groups.google.com/group/xitrum-framework/browse_thread/thread/82bc8f85ffc87325 https://groups.google.com/group/xitrum-framework/browse_thre...
- noelwelsh 15y ago
  That reply seems to reference Play 1.x, which is a very different beast from Play 2 (I've just completed a project using the Play 2 beta). I haven't used Xitrium. I think Play 2 is very good if you want a RESTful web application and you want to render pages on the server-side (which is largely what I wanted for my project). For my current project I've found we're shifting to client-side rendering, and then these kind of web frameworks are redundant, with BlueEyes being a much better fit.
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  - drKarl 15y ago
    I've used Play! with haml-js, rendering haml templates on client-side.
  - ngocdaothanh 15y ago
    Xitrum tries to catch up with latest practices in web development. It supports client-side rendering style by integrating Knockout.js. See the Todos demo: https://github.com/ngocdaothanh/xitrum-demos/blob/master/src/main/scala/quickstart/controller/Todos.scala https://github.com/ngocdaothanh/xitrum-demos/blob/master/src... https://github.com/ngocdaothanh/xitrum-demos/blob/master/src/main/view/scalate/quickstart/controller/Todos/index.jade https://github.com/ngocdaothanh/xitrum-demos/blob/master/src... You can focus on working with JS objects on browser side, and with Scala case classes on server side. Xitrum converts data back and forth for you. APIs for Knockout.js will be improved more in the future.

dkhenry 15y ago

Xitrum looks interesting and I am really happy tyo see another option for Java/Scala that isn't tied to the J2EE platform, but this gives me no compelling reason to switch from play in fact it seems there is some downsides. It doesn't use Scala as its templating language and there appears no way to deploy to an Application Server. It does seem like they are making it easier then play to do Async services, but I will have to wait for Play 2.0 to make a final call on that.