[forge-dev] Opinion poll: Jackson vs Errai

[Lincoln Baxter, III]

If I were given the choice, I would choose Errai + REST over pure JS +
REST. Try maintaining a 100,000+ line javascript app over multiple teams.
Good luck!


On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Luca Masini <
luca.masini.mailing.list at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pete I think that Thomas is talking about the marshalling protocol used by
> Errai, you can use its own or one that is "jackson compatible".
>
> I prefere the latter because I use JAX-RS services that produces JSON with
> Jackson.
>
> Ciao.
>
>
> 2012/12/19 Pete Muir <pmuir at redhat.com>
>
>> Jackson is a marshalling library for XML and JSON. Errai is a framework
>> for building apps that execute in the browser. I'm not sure you can replace
>> one with the other.
>>
>> On 19 Dec 2012, at 13:55, A-ON Puls Referenz-User wrote:
>>
>> > Sorry I was not up to the point, I am talking of current implementation
>> of Aerogear scaffold of Forge.
>> >
>> > The question is: should Aerogear scaffold continue with Jackson or
>> migrate to Errai?
>> >
>> > Thomas
>> >
>> > ----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -----
>> > Von: "Luca Masini"
>> > Erhalten: 19.12.2012 13:03
>> > An: "forge-dev List"
>> >
>> > Hi Thomas, I didn't understand very well the question in your poll.
>> >
>> > Anyway when you talk about the marshalling, do you mean an annotation
>> that know how to manage how to serialize persistent collection ??
>> >
>> > In a way, are you talking about the problem that frameworks like Gilead
>> try to solve ??
>> >
>> >
>> > 2012/12/18 Thomas Frühbeck < fruehbeck at aon.at >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > during experiments extending a generated aerogear application I found
>> that
>> >   - the current integration of JSON via Jackson is kinda creative hack
>> >   - not easily portable to recent releases of Jackson (see above)
>> >   - does not make use of annotation driven UI/ser/deserializ. processing
>> >
>> > During my investigations on upgrade possibilities to modern Jackson I
>> realized, that Errai is a very powerful and complete framework well worth
>> being featured
>> > in Forge's scaffold.
>> > As I am not really deep into Jackson/JSON/Rest yet I would like to ask
>> for your opinion on this.
>> >
>> > Another question regarding use of annotations in a scaffold:
>> > Especially regarding modern Errai/Jackson annotations are an easy means
>> to control the UI / (De-)Serialization, e.g. when working with entities, I
>> think it is
>> > necessary to use persistence-based entity instantiation before
>> deserialization, to avoid loss of data if an incomplete entity is
>> desrialized and persisted by
>> > merge().
>> >
>> > Do you think it acceptable to actively insert annotations into entity
>> code - possibly by a scaffold command like "scaffold applyAnnotations"?
>> >
>> > In my opinion this could provide interesting best practice propagation
>> for novices like me.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Thomas
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