Lofi model @ work

After 5 years it seems that this article in my blog is the most popular one, over 9,300 page views. So, it’s time to update this article. I also added a Github example for this article . Check out the newest version of this article at Medium .

I'm always a fan of " one language solution with Java to rule them all ", here are sofar my opinions about Polyglot Programming: Why "Polyglot Programming" or "Do It Yourself Programming Languages" or "Language Oriented Programming" sucks? Warum Polyglot Programming nicht praxistauglich ist Java als universelle Programmiersprache Until today nobody can excite me about Polyglot Programming. My points are getting another big support after I read the " Rise of Polyglot at Netflix " presentation which says that Polyglot is expensive , also for company in the category of Netflix. At the end of the day we need to be productive . Our applications should have a  high quality standard and the total costs  (TCO) of our software development should be manageable and low . To be able to reach this goal we have Java with Spring Boot or JakartaEE on the server-side which offers REST interfaces. So logically for user interface development ...

Introduction As the world was still at Java's hand we often define what so called a component-based platform . I had this experience in the year 2000 with OpenUSS (Open University Support System). At that time I had an idea to develop a platform which is extendable using component architecture and J2EE technology ( OpenUSS Component Architecture ). After a while we saw the birth of portal and portlet  technology. Everyone tried to build portlets which can be easily installed in a portal server, all Java based. Do you remember all those portals like Apache Jetspeed, Liferay, JBoss Portal, IBM Webshepe Portal, etc? After the portal wave there was OpenSocial gadget which is not only specified for Java but generally available for different technology implementations. It uses HTML , JavaScript and REST completely independent from Java . Apache Shindig was an Open Source implementation for OpenSocial gadgets container. OpenSocial gadget was also the main technology for iGoogle, ...