Regarding deployment leiningen-war might prove useful http://github.com/alienscience/leiningen-war.
On Jun 24, 7:17 pm, Brenton <bashw...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1. Have you written, or are you writing, a web application that uses > Clojure? What does it do? > > I am an independent contractor and do a lot of corporate intranet web > applications. All of my clients support Java. Each year I write a few > new applications and spend a lot of time maintaining old Java > applications. The first new application that I wrote this year was > pure Clojure. It was a very simple application for collecting ideas > from employees. It was great to be able to use Lisp and yet integrate > and deploy into a Java environment. The application was deployed to > WebSphere as a war file, connects to an SQL Server database and uses > the company's LDAP Java libraries. I plan to use Clojure for all new > projects. > > I also work for a research group with a bunch of statisticians > building web based tools based on the work that they do. Usually > taking some nasty spreadsheet that someone has created and turning it > into a web application. Clojure (functional programming) with Incanter > will be a perfect fit for this type of project. > > 2. Which libraries or frameworks are you using? Which versions? > > [org.clojure/clojure "1.1.0"] > [org.clojure/clojure-contrib "1.1.0"] > [compojure "0.4.0-RC3"] > [hiccup "0.2.3"] > [sandbar "0.2.4"] > [enlive "1.0.0-SNAPSHOT"] > [carte "0.1.0"] > [inflections "0.3"] > > I am also working on Sandbar and Carte. Sandbar provides middleware to > allow one to work with the session as if it were a global map with put > and get functions. It also provides middleware for authentication and > authorization. Carte is non-object oriented relational mapping. Both > are very new. > > 3. What made you choose Clojure to develop web applications in? What > are the strengths of Clojure web development? > > 1. Functional programming is a better fit than OO for web > applications. > 2. Lisp is as DRY as you can get. Every other environment that I have > worked in, you get to some point where you can no longer create > abstractions and have to resort to design patterns, code generation or > non-primary language configuration. I don't see this ever happening > with Clojure. > 3. It is just Java. Easy deployment into any Java container. Clients > get a Java app and there is much rejoicing. > 4. Mutable objects as a default are bad, even for web applications. > 5. Interactive REPL development. > 6. Ring and Compojure are exactly what I want as the foundation for my > web applications: simple, small and extensible. Middleware is > wonderful. > > 4. What do you think are the current weaknesses of web development in > Clojure? What could be improved? > > Packaging and deployment seem to be the big problem at this point. I > have a lot experience with Java web applications so it is not that > difficult for me to create a war for deployment but I can see that > someone without a Java background would be completely confused by > this. I would love to see a tool that can package my app into a war > including a REPL server. > > It would also be nice to have easily accessible, thorough, > documentation for Ring and Compojure with example code that goes > beyond the most simple cases. The community is young and so there is a > lack of shared knowledge about best practices when developing larger > applications. > > One of the things that I like about Clojure web development (the > flexibility) also causes some concern. In my opinion, the best thing > about Rails is that any developer who knows Rails can go to any Rails > project and know where everything is. The conventions of Rails have > also contributed greatly to Rails' ability to grow and innovate. I > don't know what the solution is, just wanted to bring this up. > > 5. Anything else you want to comment on? > > Many thanks to Mark and James for all of your work on Ring and > Compojure. Without these two libraries there wouldn't be much Clojure > web development going on. Also, thanks for keeping it simple and not > trying to do too much. > > On Jun 23, 2:23 pm, James Reeves <weavejes...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hello there! > > > Chas Emerick's recent "State of Clojure" survey [http://bit.ly/dtdAwb] > > indicated that a significant proportion of Clojure users are beginning > > to use Clojure for web development. A recent Hacker News posting > > [http://bit.ly/91Bu5J] seems to corroborate these results, with > > several Clojure-based web applications already out in the wild. > > > As one of the main developers of Ring and Compojure, I'd be very > > interested to hear more about how people are using Clojure to build > > web apps. To this end, I have a few questions I'd like to quiz Clojure > > web developers about: > > > 1. Have you written, or are you writing, a web application that uses > > Clojure? What does it do? > > > 2. Which libraries or frameworks are you using? Which versions? > > > 3. What made you choose Clojure to develop web applications in? What > > are the strengths of Clojure web development? > > > 4. What do you think are the current weaknesses of web development in > > Clojure? What could be improved? > > > 5. Anything else you want to comment on? > > > Please reply to this thread with your answers, and thank you very much > > in advance for your time. I really appreciate any feedback you can > > provide. > > > - James -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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