Jhipster the missing Java piece?
For 10 years and the arrival of the .Net framework, I have seen so many discussions about Java vs .Net. For me the technical debate - I put ecosystem considerations aside - has often ended with an unsatisfactory choice.
On the one hand, a technology driven entirely by a company as part of a product strategy. So, an environment that covers the entire software lifecycle, a framework and tools that are consistent and easy to assemble, with provider-controlled versioning and an ecosystem of commercial certified technologies.
On the other hand, a boiling technology, led primarily by innovative open-source projects. So different frameworks, tools galore, with an ecosystem consisting of both paid and maintained stack providers but also open-source tools. With each project, each development team, the question of the choice of the frameworks, the development tools, the test tools, the deployment tools raise again.
To summarize, a simple software factory easy to implement and accessible to all by agreeing to be in a closed eco-system against a complex software factory to implement, constantly evolving, with access to up to date technology and in a open ecosystem.
JHipster has made a dramatic change to this debate. For the first time, you can in a few clicks install a complete software factory in Java environment, integrating the best technologies of the moment, while keeping the possibility of choosing the elements of the technical stack that one wishes to use.
Not content to offer the glue allowing all these elements to be automatically configured to work together, Jhipster optimizes their implementation to make life easier and increase the productivity of developers, facilitate deployments and monitoring of applications.
Project managers, architects and developers have not been mistaken since 1 year and a half after its start, JHipster has already been adopted by more than 250 companies and JHipster won the bronze Java ecosystem at JAX London conference 2017 and the Duke's Choice Award for extreme innovation using Java technology at JavaOne 2017