Is Shale ready for primetime?
Is Shale ready for prime-time and use in production applications? David Geary seems to think so:
My consulting job is pretty exciting. I'm using Shale heavily now, especially for wizards. Our application has both static wizards, for creating a new account, for example, and dynamic wizards that are generated from a description of an online-document.
Not only that, but he's going to be talking about it on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour this year.
To start the year, I'm doing three new presentations: "Shale:
the next Struts", "Felix: a bag of tricks for JSF", and "Design
Patterns: Tales from the server-side". Later on, I'll add two more
presentations: in the near term, Killer Web UIs with Tiles and SiteMesh
and a little later, a session on Laszlo.
I'm a huge believer in Shale. I have no doubt it's destined for
great things, so I'm super-excited about the Shale session.
Now that I've talked about this, I'll probably be accused of caring more about Struts than the other web frameworks I use. In reality, I prefer most of the other frameworks in AppFuse and Equinox to Struts. However, at my current gig we're afraid to move from Struts because we're the only development group that hasn't fallen victim to the Big Blue umbrella. They've tried to make us use WebSphere, but we fought that off and continue to use JBoss. The fear is that if we don't use Struts, and use some lesser-known framework, they'll use that against us. That's why I like Shale - because it might be a way for me to use a more WebWork/JSF-type framework.