Stripes -- and Java web development is fun again by Frederic Daoud

By Frederic Daoud

For my part, I contemplate this e-book the simplest confluence of a superb explication with an outstanding know-how considering the fact that C Programming via K&R. Like K&R, this e-book proceeds from the deceptively basic but robust via the entire good points and elements in a linear and constant method. It dollars the paper chuffed technique (pioneered by means of Petzold in in his Programming home windows sequence) of unveiling five unsuitable methods prior to ultimately one correct, and continually provides the way in which for every perform after which strikes on.

Daoud does take pleasure in describing an enlightened platform, a meta MVC platform (a MVC framework in your MVC2 software) that's to software program because the announcement of Independence is to records. Stripes is a box to net functions as Smalltalk used to be (is) for buyer purposes. The positive factors and points of stripes are constant, thematic, equally sized and pushed by way of either a view from 10,000 ft and the event of a programmer within the trenches. whereas Stripes makes use of Java five positive aspects to enforce code pushed code that does programmatic busywork instantly, it additionally roles off gracefully the place the platform ends and the person begins. So, whereas many points of Stripes use clever binding pushed by way of metadata (whether java inherent or embellished with annotations), it keeps with use of interfaces and generics to permit consumer outlined plug-in polymorphism for formatters (data to strings), converters (strings to facts) and different platform gains. whereas different good began and that means initiatives and books (e.g Spring and Hibernate) turn into more and more packed with Petzold-like blather (first five improper how you can do it, simply so you could take pleasure in what comes subsequent, after which three correct how one can do it), this publication is a continuing jazz-like crescendo of best-practices.

I will credits interpreting Harnessing Hibernate by way of James Elliott with turning me directly to Stripes. yet even this booklet awarded a Rube Goldberg way to the matter of facile binding of request facts to Hibernate version gadgets (with yet-to-be lazily loaded comparable facts requiring a consultation) utilizing a Stripes Interceptor to rebind the unbound information. Stipersist, as defined by way of Daoud, maintains Fennel's procedure of: given every thing we have discovered and every little thing now we have on hand, how do we do that correct FOR YOU.

This is my new favourite programming booklet and framework. due to this ebook, i'll use Stripes to coordinate different most sensible perform applied sciences, corresponding to Hibernate and Spring, instead of the wrong way round. however, allow me recognize what Daoud and Fennel do: Stripes is aware it is position within the software program ecology. It does not attempt to be Kudzu-like, overwhelming range. It has a gently defined and limited project - being the MVC of your VC and facilitating co-operation with the remaining with out xml config.