Video Comparing JVM Web Frameworks from Devoxx France

whenever i do a talk, i get requests for a recording of it. it's rare that recordings are made, but when they are, i like to share them. in march of this year, i traveled to devoxx france and had a great time. one of the talks i delivered was comparing jvm web frameworks, with a bit of a twist from prior versions.

i started reading the paradox of choice and found many parallels to the agony that developers experience with choosing a web framework. i described how i didn't think good framework decisions were based on the many, many features that frameworks have, but often on pre-defined constraints. there's those lucky developers that get to choose a full stack framework because they're doing greenfield development. then there's those that want a better pure web framework that replaces something (e.g. struts) that's not satisfying their needs. and lastly, there's those that've found it possible to leverage a sofea and use a javascript mvc framework with an api framework on the backend. i don't think it makes sense to compare all web frameworks and i tried to use these pre-defined constraints (language, platform and application type) argument to separate into categories and help make choosing easier.

the good folks at parleys have published the video of this talk . if you haven't heard of parleys, it's an awesome platform for watching conference talks. as their mission statement says: if youtube and slideshare would make a baby then it would be named parleys.

below is an embedded video of this presentation - i hope you enjoy watching it as much as i did delivering it!