This is about Granite’s architecture in its current form. Note that Granite is not yet released, so the naming and architecture described below may change.
The Architecture of Granite
Oct 19
As a prelude to outlining the architecture of Uniscala Granite as it currently stands, I’m going to run through creating a very simple Granite example, starting from the Granite Maven archetype, and ending with the application running on Jetty that can store, display and update meaningful data in the DB4O database. I’m going to assume that you’ve have already checked out Uniscala, and built and installed it with Maven according to the quick start guide. Read the rest of this entry »
Announcing Uniscala Granite
Sep 22
I’m pleased to announce a new web application framework, called Granite, and an associated set of reusable libraries, called Uniscala. Please note that this is a work in progress: we are not announcing a release yet, or even a beta. A number people have started asking about the project, and so I felt it would be helpful to let the wider world know what is going on.
Granite is a lightweight framework for the rapid development of web applications. It is based on the very cool and richly featured Apache Wicket web framework. Granite uses an embedded object database that avoids the need for SQL or Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs), and, in the Wicket tradition, is proud of, if not smug about, its distinct lack of external XML configuration files.
I chanced upon a white paper by proprietary CMS provider, coreDNA, that can serve as a convenient catalog of all of the myths and FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt smear tactics) associated with open source detractors. The apocryphal document, Open Source vs. Closed Source (Proprietary) Software, can be found on the coreDNA website. Let me dissect this paper, particularly where it is possible to make a comparison with a popular (and my favourite) open source CMS, Plone. Read the rest of this entry »
The Linux ‘split’ and ‘shasum’ (or the more specific ‘sha1sum’) utilities are useful for moving large amounts of data around , and yet their man pages can be obscure, especially for the practical use of checkums.
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