This is bullshit. In my whole experience as a full stack developer, after having tried various technologies and languages and frameworks - including ones built with Perl, PHP, ColdFusion, and WebObjects, I can this say with full confidence and can afford to put my name and credibility to stake - Nothing is going to replace Enterprise JavaBeans anytime soon.
I wish something would, but nothing at the moment, is even close to the scale at which EJB gets things done. I truly mean it. And something built out of Ruby replacing a Java-based full-bleed framework? I think you must be fucking kidding me. What the author describes is a very specific use-case and maybe, just maybe Rails might replace a portion of that use case. In fact, if I were to do something like what the author suggests, I would still choose EJB and jBoss (or Orion if you know it better).
For performance sure, a java based solution is going to kick rail's ass. For speed of development though developing with EJBs is not even up to the standard of rails 1. The funny thing is, java is generally used to build enterprise apps which don't need anything like web scale performance. For this profile of app rails really shines, it's plenty fast enough and will hugely reduce development costs.
I wish something would, but nothing at the moment, is even close to the scale at which EJB gets things done. I truly mean it. And something built out of Ruby replacing a Java-based full-bleed framework? I think you must be fucking kidding me. What the author describes is a very specific use-case and maybe, just maybe Rails might replace a portion of that use case. In fact, if I were to do something like what the author suggests, I would still choose EJB and jBoss (or Orion if you know it better).
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