I will have to agree to disagree with your post on 11/23/2009 at 04:07
Java would do the same job, but with EXTRA effort, not the same?!
The steps you describe may produce a helloworld j2ee web application, but that is not what Phillip needs here.
What he needs is a fast way to setup and automate (via data) integration testing...to do that is very fast and easy using grails, as Phillip has so well explained here
To do the same in java, you will have to do quite a bit more hand-holding to get it working.
Speaking as a developer who has used webtest to perform testing in both J2EE and Grails, I can vouch grails is ALOT easier to setup, hence your comments (in my opinion and experience) do not hold true.
Hope that helps others when reading this blog entry.
Conor
I will have to agree to
I will have to agree to disagree with your post on 11/23/2009 at 04:07
Java would do the same job, but with EXTRA effort, not the same?!
The steps you describe may produce a helloworld j2ee web application, but that is not what Phillip needs here.
What he needs is a fast way to setup and automate (via data) integration testing...to do that is very fast and easy using grails, as Phillip has so well explained here
To do the same in java, you will have to do quite a bit more hand-holding to get it working.
Speaking as a developer who has used webtest to perform testing in both J2EE and Grails, I can vouch grails is ALOT easier to setup, hence your comments (in my opinion and experience) do not hold true.
Hope that helps others when reading this blog entry.
Conor