Hi!
I'm in the need for answers regarding wheter to use J2EE or Ruby on
Rails in a pretty big and important project.
We are totally rewriting an old software, currently written in
different languages mainly perl. It is webbased to 30-40% but the rest
is server stuff doing different transactions, mobile communications,
sending out faxes etc. You could see the platform as a very advanced
communications gateway (SMS, Fax, Printing etc.).
We first decided on J2EE but we got a developer that is pushing very
hard for RoR, although it seems that the main project developer, all
senior developers is all for J2EE since it's more stable, has been
around for awhile. One of their main arguments is that we are going to
sell this to largers companies like banks, insurance companies etc and
they don't know anything about RoR and wouldn't be very keen to buy
something like that.
One of the major "advantages" from RoR would be 3-10 times faster
development time, which from my point of view seems like it's not
true. Also the different people I have checked with seem to agree with
my opionion on that.
What I need is good arguments for choosing J2EE over RoR from both the
tech. view and the business view. |
