http://blog.nakedobjects.org Ideas and experiences relating to the Naked Objects framework Wed, 28 May 2008 15:06:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We have spent the last few months creating a new web development framework, which we have called Scimpi - see http://www.scimpi.org. No doubt your immediate thought will be: surely there are too many web frameworks already, why create another one? Well, unlike a project rationalisation I saw today on ... http://blog.nakedobjects.org/2008/05/08/the-scimpi-framework/ For those interested in Domain Driven Design, there is an interesting article on InfoQ, by Mats Helander:  Aspects of Domain Model Management.  In the resulting discussion, Dan Haywood has made a couple of useful postings concerning the Naked Objects approach to dealing with the issues raised. Richard http://blog.nakedobjects.org/2008/01/10/aspects-of-domain-model-management/ I have argued for some while that it is possible to divide business systems development projects into two distinct categories: ‘requirements-dominated projects’ and ‘engineering-dominated projects’.  One way to understand which of the two types you are dealing with, is to try to imagine that project failing, and then to write ... http://blog.nakedobjects.org/2007/11/23/requirements-dominated-vs-engineering-dominated-projects/ In response a previous blog entry, Gerald Loeffler raised a question about the potential relationship of Naked Objects to workflow or business process management (BPM). I have always disliked both of those concepts for three reasons. The first is from technical perspective: they tend to encourage the separation of procedure from ... http://blog.nakedobjects.org/2007/11/19/workflow-a-triumph-of-hope-over-experience/ I'm passionate about Domain Driven Design (DDD).  Like many experienced object modellers, I was practicing this long before Eric Evans coined that specific term, though I have sinced learned some useful  specific patterns from his book. To me, DDD is about two things: focussing on the business functionality rather than on ... http://blog.nakedobjects.org/2007/10/25/user-interfaces-the-enemy-of-domain-driven-design/ Last month I wrote about the potential synergy between Naked Objects and AOP.  Since then I've conducted my first crude experiments with Aspect and the AJDT plug-in for Eclipse.  (I found the latter remarkably straightforward to install and use).  The first of my suggested uses for AOP within Naked Objects was to ... http://blog.nakedobjects.org/2007/10/19/naked-objects-and-aop-part-2/ I consider myself to be something of an expert on Lego.  In 1984 I wrote a book about robotics, which included instructions for building a number of quite sophisticated robots using Lego Technic.  The book never sold well, and is now long out of print  -  but it did make ... http://blog.nakedobjects.org/2007/09/29/lego-dsls-and-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 ... http://blog.nakedobjects.org/2007/09/22/comparing-naked-objects-with-rails-or-grails/ Last week I was involved in a teleconference with Ramnivas Laddad  -   a leading proponent of Aspect Oriented Programming and author of  the excellent book 'AspectJ in Action'.  We were discussing (amongst other things) the potential synergy between Naked Objects and AOP. We've been reluctant to tie Naked Objects specifically to ... http://blog.nakedobjects.org/2007/09/17/naked-objects-and-aop/