Since it is Java we get to leverage some of the incredible Java libraries out there like Guice.
We've tried a few other frameworks. We build our prototype in web.py. Very simple, but I couldn't get used to not living in IntelliJ.
We tried a previous project in Rails, but it did too much 'magic' for us and the scaffolding seemed a bit too brittle.
To be fair the last time I used Rails in production was in the 1.1 days, so it's been a while.
I ask because, Perl has the CPAN, Python has PyPI, Ruby has RubyGems, etc., but what does Java have?
Since it is Java we get to leverage some of the incredible Java libraries out there like Guice.
We've tried a few other frameworks. We build our prototype in web.py. Very simple, but I couldn't get used to not living in IntelliJ.
We tried a previous project in Rails, but it did too much 'magic' for us and the scaffolding seemed a bit too brittle.
To be fair the last time I used Rails in production was in the 1.1 days, so it's been a while.