Google open-sourcing their servlet engine (sort of)

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/01/opengse-released.html

by mark_h • 17 years ago

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timf6• 17 years ago

Quoting from the article, this sums it up:

"For folks outside of Google, there's really no compelling argument to drop Apache Tomcat/Jetty, etc. in favor of OpenGSE's reference servlet engine, but anyone interested in servlet engine and servlet spec compliance would have a fantastic learning resource available to them"

paul2• 17 years ago

I think they are really trying to discourage usage. It used to be a nice, fast, and simple http server (when it was originally written), but from a quick look it appears that they made all "enterprisy" with FactoryFactories and whatnot.

Java the language is ok, but I the culture is dangerous.

timf6• 17 years ago

"the culture"

There is no single Java culture.

green• 17 years ago

Once you get many "enterprisy" minds, they will be screwing stuff badly. Startups usually proven to build nice and simple solutions, without fat. ;-)

vsiva68• 17 years ago

I've heard this sentiment echoed numerous times (esp. by people who love Python).Could you guys clarify more as to the different things to keep in mind while writing "good" Java? Are there examples of Java projects you'd consider good and worth learning from?

As far as Python (and dynamic languages in general) goes, I haven't heard any good responses to Ted Dziuba's blog post: http://teddziuba.com/2008/12/python-makes-me-nervous.html I can see that a startup would prefer Python/Ruby to Java, but what about bigger projects?

litewulf• 17 years ago

I presume that in most cases FactoryFactories exist for testability, and aren't created just to check that off on the enterprise checklist ;)

anuraggoel4• 17 years ago

Time to update the project README?

http://code.google.com/p/opengse/source/browse/trunk/README....

... (This is currently a hidden project with members-only access; a Google Account is required in order to become a member and access it.)...

Edit: They just fixed it. The power of open-source.

cdibona• 17 years ago

Yep. It's obviously not hidden :-)

anuraggoel4• 17 years ago

FactoryFactory sighting!

http://code.google.com/p/opengse/source/browse/trunk/transpo...

tlrobinson2• 17 years ago

They should have used Google Guice! I haven't used it, but it sounds like an interesting framework:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2948853912335655747&...

hello_moto• 17 years ago

"... raw HTTP processing and a shell which wraps that inner core and ... the compliance shell... this compliance shell can wrap our internal corporate version, the Google Servlet Engine, ..."

Something wraps something that wraps something else. Sounds familiar from what I've seen in my office. Coincidentally, most developers in my workplace swears by Java.

Google open-sourcing their servlet engine (sort of)

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