Just wondering, do we want to put out a blog post on the conversion? This is a great demonstration of synergy between podlings.
Thanks for picking this up Steve! John On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 4:43 PM sblackmon <sblack...@apache.org> wrote: > James, > > I was able to switch several APIs from dropwizard to juneau-microservice > in an afternoon, removing jackson in the process. Lines of code decreased, > configuration scheme was simplified, and got HTML and XML support for > free. Very nice. > > I suspect that JSON-LD operations would need to use RDF libraries for > anything beyond the simplest examples. Jena provides some support for > JSON-LD already. [1] > > [1] https://jena.apache.org/documentation/io/ > > Steve > On January 6, 2017 at 8:32:18 AM, James Bognar ( > james.bog...@salesforce.com) wrote: > > Hi Steve! > > I welcome your interest in our project! We're looking for ways to increase > external participation. > > Juneau's been a pet-project of mine for a while as an internal IBM > community source project. There are probably differences between Jackson > and Juneau since I specifically did NOT look at the Jackson implementation > so that it would be a cleanroom implementation. However, I know teams that > successfully converted from Jackson to Juneau. One team did performance > tests and showed that Juneau was 20% faster than Jackson for a base set of > data and that the performance improved with larger datasets. > > I haven't looked at JSON-LD specifically. I'll have to investigate to look > at the feasibility. One possible issue I see is that Juneau doesn't use a > DOM for serializing/parsing for any of the languages (except the Jena-based > RDF ones). That's one of the reasons why it's efficient....it marshalls > directly from POJOs. > > I'll join the mailing list and contribute any ideas I have. > > Thanks! > James. > > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 12:29 PM, sblackmon <sblack...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Juneau came to my attention recently and I’ve just had the chance to read > > through the documentation and play with the micro service samples. > > Congrats on your second apache release. > > > > I’m on the PPMC of Podling Streams - http://streams.incubator.apache.org > , > > Your project is interesting to me and I just wanted to say hello and > start > > a dialog. > > > > We use jackson and typesafe config heavily - so there’s a possibility we > > could switch to juneau for those capabilities as it appears you already > > have feature and (potentially?) performance parity. > > > > We maintain hundreds of JSON schemas from which we generate POJOs which > > are used within the project. The code-gen process supports internal and > > external $ref - I noticed that Juneau has similar code so perhaps we > could > > combine efforts on that front. > > > > In addition to POJOs we’ve got maven plugins that can use json schemas to > > generate scala, and resource files to configure platforms including > > cassandra, elasticsearch, hive, and pig to store / analyze compliant json > > documents. This is a relatively immature capability that we built > > ourselves because a) maintaining files like that is a headache and b) we > > didn’t see anyone else addressing it using schemas. > > > > One specific question I have about Juneau is whether you plan to add > > support for JSON-LD in 2017. We are putting together a plan to support > > Activity Streams 2.0 and will need a fairly sophisticated JSON-LD engine > to > > make that work. > > > > I welcome anyone from your community to join our list and suggest other > > ways we might collaborate. > > > > > > > -- > James Bognar >
