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One moment in (Java) time

 

Java Tournament Championship

Note: Read the description and explanation of the tournament.

These two competitors are pretty much mirrors of the other.

Ruby on Rails, the highly regarded (and publicized) is a full stack framework
based on the Ruby language. It features an easy to use ORM implementation called ActiveRecord.
It is strongly MVC.
Documentation and support a real strength here.
Need to learn Ruby to use this. (both finalists are based on a scriptig language)
Uses ActiveRecord for ORM integration.
Ruby templates for view.

Grails is a relatively new framework based on Groovy, a Java implementation scripting language designed to be most
like Java itself while providing the advantages of a dynamically typed language.
MVC model, much based on ROR
has its own templating view technology (GSP)
based on Spring MVC and Spring, Hibernate for ORM
need to learn Groovy
GORM – built in ORM based on Hibernate

View
ROR: 9 G: 9

AJAX support
ROR: 4 G: 3

Documentation
ROR: 10 G: 8

Backward compatibility
ROR: 3 G: 3

Support
ROR: 10 G: 8

Database integration
ROR: 5 G: 7

Integration
ROR: 5 G: 7

Internationalization
ROR: 3 G: 3

How complex is it
ROR: 9 G: 9

Abstraction
ROR: 3 G: 3

Separation of concerns
ROR: 6 G: 6

file upload
ROR: 4 G: 4

plug in SSO
ROR: 4 G: 4

final:
JROR 75 Grails 74