--- John Thorhauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 08 June 2001 01:09, Bruno Unna wrote:
> >
> > Nonetheless, since the time I started to use Turbine, Lutris came out
> > with their first beta release of Barracuda, and since I'm yet in the
> > early stages of my first project with Turbine, I'm feeling just as a
> > fifteen years old girl about to make *the* decision of her life... :)
>
> I dont know much about Barracuda but if you tell us what it does, maybe we
> can help you understand how turbine might accomplish the saem thing,
>
> John
I think the poster was hoping that we had already evaluated Barracuda.
It appears to be a component orientated framework for building web applications.
The main difference between Turbine and Barracuda that I read about on the
website seems to be the choice between Velocity or XMLC2
But since you can plug in any templating system you like into Turbine that
seems a bit of a moot point.
There may be many other non-obvious differences.
If evaluating the two systems you need to look at two things
1) The current codebase.
2) the people involved in doing future development.
I am not in a position compare the code - you should do it yourself - you can download
both since they are open source. However I have looked at a lot of Apache Java code
and in general I find it of very high quality.
The latter is definitely a personal opinion. Enhydra appears to be far glossier
than Apache with better logos and graphic design on the website. Apache
Turbine suffers from a rather steep learning curve - you need to learn
a lot to get things going, but maybe this list will help improve matters.
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To paraphrase one vociferous Turbine developer who said something like:
"You could use Enhydra, but then you'd have to use XMLC, and that would be horrible".
However maybe XMLC2 is better than XMLC and maybe better than Velocity?
I'd be surprised though. Velocity has had enough people using it and developing
it to satisfy me.
Alex McLintock
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