There are a lot of similarities between Spring Roo and Sculptor. I think it is good news that they launch Spring Roo and I hope they will be successful, because then it will increase the overall interest in productivity tools. I have only read what is easily available and played with the tool for a few hours. I had big expectations on Spring Roo. I don't have enough experience of it yet to have a solid opinion, but I can admit that I'm pretty disappointed when playing with it so far. I will not go into details here, but it will likely be a topic for our http://fornax-sculptor.blogspot.com/ blog , when we have evaluated Roo more.
The features are very limited so far. Try to define some real domain model and you immediately see that it only supports very basic stuff. That will of course be improved, but they are far behind us today. Looking at the internal implementation of addons I would prefer something more sophisticated to generate code than almost plain java. I prefer temples. oAW Xpand is excellent. I'm not a shell addict. I think it is more useful with a textual DSL. I like the interactive mode, with background code generation. That would be a cool thing for us to implement. It would be interesting to discuss the possibilities for that with the oAW guys. I guess it would require some kind of partial code generation. But that is another thread, some day. Maybe I like the AspectJ ITDs for separating the generated code. Sculptor uses extension. It is nice to get rid of the artificial inheritance, but I don't know enough about eventual drawbacks of the additional tooling that is required by aspectj. /Patrik nanomouse wrote: > > How is this similar to / different from the Spring Roo project? > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Spring-Roo-tp24660129s17564p24670945.html Sent from the Fornax-Platform mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fornax-developer mailing list Fornax-developer@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fornax-developer
