Gregg Bolinger - stripes tag

Stripes Book Promo @ JavaRanch

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:58:00 GMT

Frederic Daoud is promoting his new book Stripes...and Java web development is fun again all this week at JavaRanch in the Application Frameworks forum. 4 lucky people will be drawn on Friday to win a free copy of Freddy's book so get to JavaRanch and ask him some questions about Stripes and his book.

Random Thoughts of the Day

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

This is just sort of a rambling of general thoughts that by themselves don't amount to much but all of them together might make for a nice blog entry, I thought.

"Best Tool for the Job" is a Myth

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:13:00 GMT

Browsing around the Q&A on JavaRanch.com I see a lot of the same questions when it comes to web frameworks. To paraphrase:

"Which web framework should I choose and why?"

I and others often respond with the typical canned answer. This answer comes in many flavors; "There is no golden hammer", "We can't answer without the context of your project", "Every project requires its own investigation to answer this question", etc, etc. The meaning of those answers is all the same, however. But is it true?

The last 3 projects I've worked on I really pushed for, and was able to use, Stripes. I really like Stripes and since I am not a "full stack" person I generally like to pick and choose each portion of my solution puzzle. Stripes is my go to web MVC piece of that puzzle. And I honestly can't recall that during the discovery phase of any of these projects I honestly considered anything else. (on my current project we did discuss Symfony vs Stripes but that is more of a language debate than framework debate). Is that a mistake? I don't think so. If you use, like, and favor Wicket do you really consider something like Struts 2 or Spring MVC when you are getting ready to start a new project? I'd be willing to bet you don't.

I think we all like to think that we are open minded about this sort of thing but the passion on blogs and forums (or flame wars if you prefer) really prove otherwise. Most developers think their tool box contains the golden hammer(s).

What do you think?

Stripes 1.5 RC 1 Released

Fri, 23 May 2008 15:22:00 GMT

The first Release Candidate for Stripes 1.5 was released today. You can download it from here.

The development team believes this release to be production ready and only expect minor bugs to be found during this RC period. For a full list of changes since 1.4.3 see here

What Makes Stripes So Great?

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:01:00 GMT

What better way to kick off my new weblog than with an entry about Stripes! I was reading the mailing list this morning and there is a discussion about Stripes versus Struts2. The author of the thread was trying to convince his team that they should migrate to Stripes instead of Struts2. So he asked for some leverage from the Stripes community. I'm not going to get into that debate here but an avid Stripes user, Will, made some very nice remarks regarding why Stripes is so good. I'd like to pull out some of his comments here.