Naked Objects

In the course of presenting Naked Objects to a new community this week, I was asked how it compared to the Ruby on Rails and/or Grails frameworks  -  a question that comes up quite frequently.

Naked Objects is similar to Ruby on Rails and Grails in the following ways:

• All three frameworks demonstrate a very high commitment to the principle of Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY), specifically by deriving the presentation and/or the persistence layers from the domain model.
• All three frameworks favour convention over configuration as a programming model.
• All three frameworks can be used to deliver finished applications, but may also used to build prototypes of systems that will eventually be delivered on a different platform.

But there are also some profound differences Read more »