Spring Roo MVC view engine

Question

Hi,

At first I would like to know who use spring-roo framework?

At second I would like to know is it possible to change default view engine of spring-roo. Spring claims that roo is absolutely new productive framework (some kind of mix with productivity abomination - SpringMVC and big, performances-poor dinosaurs - Grails). By default Roo can uses "Apache Tiles" or JSP, both are not productivity friendly stone age view engines. Did anybody tried to uses modern view engines with Roo ? If not, it means that roo is not so productive as spring present it (just another web framework abomination, that all).

Answer 1

Victor,

It seems like you are very dissatisfied with the open source (free) offerings. This is your opportunity to write an add-on. Keep in mind that Roo does support GWT as well. By referring to these frameworks as an abomination is pretty severe and is not likely to solicit positive responses from the many helpful Spring focused individuals.

The power is in your hands, contribute.

Answer 2

Gordon,

Thanks for your answer. I'm not really dissatisfied, because opensource solutions offers us much more that we can imagine with classic approaches of j2ee development. Take Play! framework or RoR (both can be used in standard servlet containers), that make us more productive and why we cannot just take successful solutions (DSL,View Templates, etc) and implements it in really conceptually new web frameworks in java.

Currently I can say that Roo is some kind of mutant (GrailsOnSpringMvc) that will die soon, and spring prove just another time that they don't know produce web frameworks. In others domains spring's solutions are great.