"The bottom line? Sometimes, it pays to look beyond the Java language when you're thinking about lightweight development. In the next few articles, I'll move beyond the Java language to look at a new language and a few lightweight frameworks."
"In my last article, "Secrets of lightweight development success, Part 3: The emergence of Spring," you learned the basics of lightweight containers. In this article, I walk you through the three most popular containers:"
"In this article, I introduce you to a radically different kind of Web server: a continuation-based Web server. Of course, the Java programming language doesn't have native support for continuations (although other programming languages do). Here, I'll examine continuation-based servers. In "Secrets of lightweight development success, Part 8," I examined one such framework called Seaside, followed by a few Java technology frameworks that provide limited continuation support through various creative means."
"In this series of articles, I focus on the basics of lightweight development -- an overloaded term if ever there was one. This first article sets the groundwork and defines lightweight development. Future articles will move freely from process to principles to tools. I'll also focus on implementation philosophy and architecture at a higher level, and provide actual implementation details in code."
"In the next couple of articles, I'll take a more exhaustive look at the major lightweight containers and indicate where you might use each. Then I'll take a fuller look at Spring, the most popular container. I told you at the beginning of this article that I needed to lighten up my bike without sacrificing my suspension. Now you know how to lighten up your container without sacrificing enterprise services."
"There you have it. In Seaside, you've got incredible debugging and management tools built right into the application. The framework handles links, HTML display details, state, and difficult issues, such as the Back button. I hope this article series has shown you some strategies for lightweight development, in the Java language and beyond. You'll be able to read more about both in my new book, Beyond Java, and in my previous books, especially Better, Faster, Lighter Java. I hope you get the chance to try some of these techniques, and your friends and peers will think of them as strange and wonderful, just as I judged the kayakers on the Ocoee River."
