Re: [forge-dev] Opinion poll: Jackson vs Errai

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(a)gmail.com&gt; 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(a)redhat.com&gt; >> 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(a)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 >> > _______________________________________________ >> > forge-dev mailing list >> > forge-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/forge-dev >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > **************************************** >> > http://www.lucamasini.net >> > http://twitter.com/lmasini >> > http://www.linkedin.com/pub/luca-masini/7/10/2b9 >> > **************************************** >> > _______________________________________________ >> > forge-dev mailing list >> > forge-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/forge-dev >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> forge-dev mailing list >> forge-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/forge-dev > > > > -- > **************************************** > http://www.lucamasini.net > http://twitter.com/lmasini > http://www.linkedin.com/pub/luca-masini/7/10/2b9 > **************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > forge-dev mailing list > forge-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/forge-dev -- Lincoln Baxter, III http://ocpsoft.org "Simpler is better." _______________________________________________ forge-dev mailing list forge-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/forge-dev