After many years (decade) of web development, here are the things that I want in a framework, mostly based in clojure:
What do you think and what you add. This is ambitious and just a "ideas" of what I would add. What would you want from your ideal framework? 1. Based on Spring Framework for middleware: Reason: there are years and years and years of development spent on spring and there are many things done right. If I were integrating with any other third party libraries, I would use spring. Spring is added to my framework. 2. Based on Hibernate for ORM mapping: Reason: the defacto standard for ORM mapping with Java. And also used by NHibernate. There is a lot of support for most popular databases. 3. Clojure/Lisp based configuration AND default XML configurations. This has become the standard way to configure a J2EE web application including spring and hibernate. But I would like a lisp oriented configuration. 4. Easy mapping to URLs. I like python's approach for URL mapping 5. Clojure based, framework based server pages AND JSPs. I have always hated some aspects of JSP and ASPs, etc, etc. They are just too complicated. I would want to use Clojure code within the framework oriented server page and other predefined tags. 5. Lift like reusable server pages. Lift has an interesting approach for resuing the same page. E.g. you have an if-else statement within the page. If request == GET ...render this if request == POST ...render this. if URL == 'abc.html' .. render this. I want to embed this in my framework. You only touch one page, but you get different outputs depending on the request method or URL, etc, etc. 6. Use of Clojure syntactic sugar -- TO BE DETERMINED. There is the ability to use powerful Clojure constructs with this framework but I haven't figured out how yet. 7. Better integration of CSS, Javascript, HTML. A lot of a web application still resides with the client side. I have yet to see an web framework that addresses client development (besides GWT). Maybe something as simple as server page tags for CSS? Javascript? 8. Additional third party libraries: Lucene, iText, jFreeChart, optional Terracotta integration ---------------- Other optional/additional thoughts. 9. Clear separation between back-end and front-end layers --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
