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I was thrilled to learn today that my friend Eitan Suez has released his JMatter application development framework as
open-source software.
I’ve been a huge fan of the idea of Naked Objects since I first saw
Richard Pawson talk about the idea at OOPSLA in 2000. (He called the idea
"expressive systems" then, but only the name has changed.) I
introduced the idea to Dave Thomas at
OOPSLA the following year, and he began spreading the word through a series
of talks at NFJS symposiums.
Unfortunately, programmers who became interested in Naked Objects as an
application-development strategy frequently turned away from it again after
becoming frustrated with the poor quality and design of the default naked
objects application framework. Eitan, however, took a better approach: he
decided to write a better framework. And he wrote it in the context of a
real application he was developing for his employer, which is always the
best way to drive framework design: validating ideas in the crucible of
real-world constraints. The resulting framework is JMatter, and it’s
a great tool. If you’ve ever wanted to explore Naked Objects as a way
of building cool, powerful business applications quickly — or if
you’ve already tried Naked Objects but decided it wasn’t ready
yet — you owe it to yourself to give it a try.
(Disclaimer: my enthusiasm for JMatter has nothing to do with the fact that
my visage is prominently featured in one of Eitan’s sample
application screenshots. Quite to the contrary, in fact. :-)
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