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diff --git a/_posts/2012-02-10-sacrilege-a-rather-lousy-rant-on-java-for-the-web.html b/_posts/2012-02-10-sacrilege-a-rather-lousy-rant-on-java-for-the-web.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dfd9816 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2012-02-10-sacrilege-a-rather-lousy-rant-on-java-for-the-web.html @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: ! 'Sacrilege: a rather lousy rant on Java for the web' +tags: +- Development +- Loadacrap +status: publish +type: post +published: true +meta: + _edit_last: '1' + _sd_is_markdown: '1' +--- +<p>Let me start out saying I'm glad I never had to make web apps in Java. Boostrapping the crap out of a Maven + Struts archetype is insane. I honestly don't know what to feel for Java programmers.</p> + +<p>It's been an hour and a half since I've started reading the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Apache-Struts-Web-Application-Development/dp/1847193390/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328904973&sr=8-1">Apache Struts 2 Web Application Development</a> book and I'm going nuts. <em>I've dealt with more XML in this hour and a half than most of the time in my degree.</em></p> + +<p>Story told short:</p> + +<ol> +<li>I've installed Netbeans and an Apache Tomcat 7 server.</li> +<li>I've created a new Maven Web application.</li> +<li>I've copied a struts routing example, along with the respective action POJO.</li> +<li>Tried to reach the URL; no luck.</li> +<li>Looked up for a web.xml example, in order to correctly load Struts.</li> +<li>Project won't deploy. FML.</li> +</ol> + +<p><strong>At an hour and a half, reading and typing, I could have done so much more in Rails or Sinatra. Sorry.</strong></p> + +<p>I don't care what people think about me comparing Java to Ruby at such an early stage in <em>trying to learn</em>. But hey, it's 2012, software ought to be easier to accomplish. Why does it have to be so difficult to understand how a simple controller is executed? Why is the Java way so convoluted?</p> + +<p>I'll update this post when I can create a Struts action properly, perhaps with an interceptor. If I can make it to apply some TDD along the way, I pat myself in the back. Until then, I stay with the attitude.</p> |