[codecraft] Java EE vs. Play

[Philip Durbin]

Hmm. But Michael, I thought you made a big deal about how stacktraces were
much more readable in your presentation at
http://www.mbarsinai.com/blog/2014/06/10/playful-eye-for-the-jee-guy/

I just flipped through your slides at
http://www.slideshare.net/MichaelBarSinai/playful-eye-for-the-jee-guy and
expected to see a screenshot similar to
http://horstmann.com/unblog/2015-11-21/play-error.png (good!) as opposed to
http://horstmann.com/unblog/2006-06-07/images/stacktrace3.gif (bleh!).

Anyway, I'm kind of used to wading through enormous stacktraces because,
well, I have to.

On a related note I just found this:
http://www.nurkiewicz.com/2012/03/filtering-irrelevant-stack-trace-lines.html
which links to
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9606614/cleaning-noise-out-of-java-stack-traces
which I just voted up. :)

On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 7:03 AM, Michael Bar-Sinai <mich.barsinai at icloud.com
> wrote:

> ...And then came the migration to Play 2.4, where the static parts are
> being deprecated, and everything is getting dynamic and dependency
> injected, and there were quite a few error screens, and stack traces. Not
> from hell, though*.
>
> * Just finished porting a Play app to 2.4. Not an easy task, even though I
> like the DI better than Java EE's. Play! still seems to be better-suited
> for HTTP interfaces, as it does not try to abstract HTTP away. But it's not
> a clear-winner-by-KO.
> IMHO, the main issue with Play! is the tools - IntelliJ is the only IDE to
> that supports it at the moment. ScalaIDE has some official support, but
> since I've installed it the JVM crashes (that is, I get the OSX's crash
> dialog, not even Eclipse's). There's a NetBeans plug-in on the way (
> http://nbpleasureplugin.com).  As IntelliJ is expensive, buggy, eats RAM
> and CPU and is generally annoying, I currently use Sublime text and the
> console. The amazing part - I'm still quite productive with this setup.
>
> On 22 Nov 2015, at 13:49, Philip Durbin <philipdurbin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://horstmann.com/unblog/2015-11-21/index.html
>
> "All work and no play makes Jack a dull programmer. And I just felt the
> dull pain of another stack trace from hell from my Java EE app server.
> There has to be a better way. So I ported the troublesome code to run on
> the Play framework, and it was all play. No stack trace from hell, just a
> few screens with clear error messages, and then sweet success."
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