Hi Karl,

While many people are enthusiastic about AppFuse, I think what Matt is actually saying on that page (the "Sliced Bread" statement) is that Spring is the best thing since sliced bread. Prolly a tad confusing.

What I've gathered is that AppFuse is meant to be a get-you-started application generator. I think the problem it aims to solve is to create a skeleton of an application for you, given your choices from a handful of open source options for various layers, i.e. O/R. I think it's especially useful for developers that want to use some of these frameworks but don't have experience with several of them.

Say I have experience with all the things I want to use, except Hibernate. I'd go to the Hibernate site and learn the basics. But if I want an app that uses Hibernate, Spring, Acegi Security and DWR, learning each of them and piecing together a working starting implementation can take quite a bit of time and effort. I think it this particular problem that AppFuse is meant to help us with.

On 2/6/06, Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@gentoo.org > wrote:

Hi gang,

I'm at it again. I'd like to know if somebody somewhere has actually
used AppFuse to create a webapp. The slides and website seems to think
it's the best thing since sliced bread, but search as I might, I can't
find a single useful application built with it.

(Now, I'm the first to admit that my searching skillz may have failed me.)

Cheers,

-- Karl T
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