Miguel's Zen Moment

Posted by admin, Thu Aug 03 15:58:14 UTC 2006

A J2EE Moment of Zen – Miguel de Icaza

Microsoft’s Avalon is the J2EE of GUI APIs

Interesting. Even more interesting is the plea for the “Rails of GUI”. Now that’s what I’m talking about. Rails is gaining popularity because it is “opinionated” software which favors convention over configuration. What this means for the programmer, is that the plumbing is just assumed to be there, and it works.

Why not a “Rails of GUI”? How hard could it be?

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  1. Tim 08.15.06 / 08AM
    I've thought about that too. It would be nice if it was done in a similar style to Rails itself. I was just discussing with a client that there is no "Rails for GUI" yesterday.....

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