Matt Raible is doing his first training tour overseas in Norway this week. Beeing the author of Spring Live the topic was of course Spring Framework, but also some of the “competition” (at least to the MVC part) like WebWork, JSF and Tapesty. All of them have problems, but he seemed to like Tapestry the most. The impression left from his comparison was that Struts and Spring MVC were the most mature. Spring MVC is even picking up on job offerings, but as he said that could be because Spring IoC triggers in his search.
We also had a look at AppFuse which I’ll have to look into. There’s a lot of magic going on there that I’m a bit sceptical about, but if it saves time it saves time. 😉
It was a good seminar and left me some pointers as to where to start off with Spring MVC. I got almost everything I expected out of the day. Matt is a smart guy, and a good speaker. He’s even a nice guy. 😉 We had some chats during lunch about the some of the challenges with opensource, different frameworks, his childhood and even some of his professional plans. I’ll leave it to him to announce them. 🙂
Go see him if you get the chance. As far as I know he’s at the Stavanger JUG on wednesday, and Oslo JUG on thursday.