[forge-dev] Opinion poll: Jackson vs Errai

[Pete Muir]

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 
> 
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> Von: "Luca Masini" 
> Erhalten: 19.12.2012 13:03 
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> 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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