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A First Web Project with Clojure
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Permalink Reply by Eric Lavigne on
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If I offered to finish the site in a week, would my client need further justification :-)
A timeshare reservation site would be fairly trivial from a technology perspective. For the web front-end, I would use Compojure, just as I did with the Wari contest. For database access, I would use clojure.contrib.sql, which has the same capabilities as java.sql but without being so incredibly verbose.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Levin on
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So, Eric - can you say a few words about Compojure? Just enough to get us started. And, please point us to a reference. Is clojure.contrib.sql fairly full featured? Can it to stored procs and transactions? What are some of its strengths and limitations? Just a taste...
Eric Lavigne said:If I offered to finish the site in a week, would my client need further justification :-)
A timeshare reservation site would be fairly trivial from a technology perspective. For the web front-end, I would use Compojure, just as I did with the Wari contest. For database access, I would use clojure.contrib.sql, which has the same capabilities as java.sql but without being so incredibly verbose.
Architecture is important for big projects. This isn't a big project. -
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Compojure is a web development library with a focus on simple, RESTful applications. This example should give you a feeling for Compojure:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Compojure/Getting_Started#A_bit_more_v...
And here are some references:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Compojure/Core_Libraries
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Compojure/Tutorials_and_Tips
http://github.com/weavejester/compojure
You can find some examples of clojure.contrib.sql here:
http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib/blob/master/src/clojur...
And here's a reference:
http://richhickey.github.com/clojure-contrib/sql-api.html
clojure.contrib.sql has transactions and prepared statements. I don't know about stored procedures, since I have never used them in Clojure or Java. -
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