Re: Anyone playing with Scala?
Re: Anyone playing with Scala?
- Subject: Re: Anyone playing with Scala?
- From: Tim Worman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:05:52 -0700
I should have looked there to begin with. This was my answer:
"Scala compiles to java bytecode. Hence using it with WebObjects is
fairly straightforward."
Thanks for taking the time to put up that resource. I don't relish
learning a new language right now but the reasons to do so are good
ones.
Tim
On Sep 16, 2009, at 9:55 PM, Ravi Mendis wrote:
Hi Tim,
Yes.
Here's how to use Scala to code a WO app:
http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WO/WebObjects+with
+Scala
Thanks,
Ravi
On Thursday, September 17, 2009, at 06:51AM, "Tim Worman" <email@hidden
> wrote:
Ravi et al:
How is it possible to use another language like Scala to code
WebObjects apps? Sorry for the newb question - I'm really interested
in the answer. My first real programming (apart from filemaker,
applescript, shell, etc.) is webobjects and I wasn't a computer
science major so this must require a level of abstraction beyond my
experience.
Tim
UCLA GSE&IS
On Sep 16, 2009, at 9:43 PM, Ravi Mendis wrote:
Playtime is over for Scala...
...my intention is to do my next production app in Scala.
The primary motivation for using Scala is that it is inherently
thread-safe.
Web 2.0 apps (like a ERDivaLook app for example) really need
concurrent request handling.
With Java, one can be careful, but unless you code-review regularly
you can never be sure you have thread-safe code.
In Scala you are automatically writing thread-safe code (more or
less).
So you don't have to have sleepless nights over deadlocks when using
concurrent request handling :)
Now, developing and deploying more ambitious Web 2.0 UI is a
possibility...
On Thursday, September 17, 2009, at 06:10AM, "Q" <email@hidden>
wrote:
Thanks Ravi, I will check it out. It's only been 2 years and 3
months
since I asked the original question. :)
Over the last couple of years I have actually written a few proof
of
concept approaches for writing wo apps in other languages: ruby,
groovy, javascript, etc. They worked with various amounts of
success,
and it is all very cool, but I always keep coming back to java
because
of the tool support and IDE integration with WOLips and Java.
Particularly for things that aren't code, like component
validation,
content assist, etc.
Do you feel this is something you would use to write real world
apps
with, or is it just something you have tried as a bit of fun?
On 17/09/2009, at 11:27 AM, Ravi Mendis wrote:
Dusting off an ancient thread here...
For those interested in programming WebObjects in Scala, you might
like:
http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WO/WebObjects+with
+Scala
Thanks to Dominique Schonenberger for gifting me "Programming in
Scala" (by Martin Odersky) for my holidays :)
FYI: Martin Odersky, is both the author of the language and the
book.
I highly recommend it! It's easy to see why Scala's become popular
at Twitter, linkedin, etc.
Thanks,
Ravi
--
Seeya...Q
Quinton Dolan - email@hidden
Gold Coast, QLD, Australia (GMT+10)
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