I have yet to become a Ruby fan. But it does make me, a Java developer, envy some of its perceived simplicity. I do want a framework that is flexible and configurable. I do want my Java compiler and IDE catching errors for me at compile time or before that. There are a few frameworks out there currently that put together many other frameworks and has the ability to generate CRUD code: JBoss IDE for JBoss Seam? Appfuse's Appgen for variety of frameworks.
But sometimes I can't help but to think if we can get any simpler? I say yes we can! How simple can we get? Obviously, from the basic domain entity classes, we should be able to generate at runtime all the things we ever need for basic CRUD operations (including screen, sql). This has been done and that's what made other frameworks (even language) popular. However, we are Java developers. We want to do this while maintaining good multi-teired POJO architecture and its flexibility!
