[mattbrewsbytes]

I have been looking at web frameworks on JVM's a little bit lately for work (yeah doing coding again). My most recent experience has been doing some hobby projects with Ruby and Rails framework. I like how that works for simple CRUD apps, a lot less mundane coding is needed compared to my programming in Java web apps 5-8 years ago.

There has been some decent research by Raible Designs on this topic: http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/grails_angular_vs_jhipster or http://www.slideshare.net/mraible/comparing-jvm-web-framewor...

I don't know the author but those articles have led me towards looking into JHipster. Grails didn't sit well with me since I have done Ruby/Rails prior to that and some things just appeared backwards with Grails.

My personal results recently were that JHipster was a bit cumbersome to get going since there are so many dependencies to install. Some of which I could not get to compile/setup with Node.js. Since my target app is an enterprise corporate environment, that is a non-starter. I'm leaning towards Ruby/Rails but with JRuby and the warbler gem to basically WAR up the Rails app so I can deploy to something simple like Tomcat.