As titled, in any language. Just do not want to miss any great framework.
CakePHP - scaffolding
django
web2py
Maybe Dynamic Data with ASP.NET? It's very much like scaffolding in CakePHP, which is, in turn, very much like Ruby on Rails scaffolding.
Ruby on Rails and Grails can generate CRUD with their scaffolding.
Our DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit is a program analysis and transformation engine that is usable on many languages, including SQL, Java, C#, PHP, C++, ...
We have used it specifically to automatically construct the data access layer generation in C# (specificially NHibernate) from SQL DDL. Generating screens (HTML pages, etc.) to match would be pretty easy.
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I recently discovered Orchard used by a company where I'm going to work. This CMS is very well designed and you can do a lot of customizations.
However, I don't found any examples explaining how to create a set of tables outside of Orchard and then doing CRUD operations with these tables using a Micro ORM like NPoco or with a more SQL abstract tool like Entity Framework.
I don't want to use the migration engine of Orchard in the futur to change these tables because I already have my own homemade engine. In other words, these tables will completely be driven by my engine.
In the same way, it would be nice to have examples of how to inject dependencies of these components. Dependencies are SqlConnection or Context.
Thank you.
I haven't used Orchard too much, but the documentation indicates it is using NHibernate, so I would recommend stick with it to access the tables you created with your own db migration engine.
I heard that companies that use Java technologies, they used to build their own custom Framework that wraps Hibernate. However, is it really feasible for their .Net peers to do the same thing with NHibernate or Entity Framework?
This is almost always a horrible idea - I think Ayende sums it up best in this article. In general, you should consider NHibernate itself to be the "wrapper" around your data access - attempting to build an abstraction layer on top of it is probably going to be a losing proposition.
Actually, you should check out some of the articles on .NET Junkie's weblog. He wrote several great posts on how to deal with repositories, queries, commands and so on. We've been using these in a very large enterprise system where we switch between an in-memory dictionary, an in-memory SQLite database and a production environment using SQL Server or Oracle. Obviously, we use NHibernate for this.
I use the repository pattern and a separate project/dll to abstract away the data framework nhibernate / entity framework. this is a good starting point http://codebetter.com/petervanooijen/2008/04/04/wrapping-up-nhibernate-in-repositories/
I am looking for a robust REST framework to eliminate all that boilerplate code with starting up a new REST-only web service (mobile clients). Is there a framework that already has this built-in where I could, for example, simply build the domain models and run with it? I would like to see:
Authentication & User Model
Logging
Basic CRUD
Permissions (for model access)
Scalability
It seems every web service at a minimum needs the above capabilities. Somebody, somewhere must have written a good re-usable framework with the above capabilities. Any ideas? I would prefer Node.js, Java or even hosting with a PaaS service provider that offers these features.
Spring 3 MVC provides a very nice and simple annotation based framework for REST.
See http://blog.springsource.org/2009/03/08/rest-in-spring-3-mvc/ it can be deployed on any java web server like Jetty or Tomcat.
A framework like XAP provides a combined solution of Spring and Jetty plus it's built for dynamic scaling.
See http://www.gigaspaces.com/xap.
Last if you want to easily on board this solution on any cloud CloudifySource provides an open source project which includes XAP capabilities and PaaS.
See http://www.cloudifysource.org
I use Symfony 1.4 for this. It is an PHP framework. It generates most of what you need for free. The database stuff is also quite easy as the Symfony uses ORM libraries (you can choose but I can recommend Doctrine: http://www.doctrine-project.org/).
For example the whole backend site(admin) generating is a matter of running one command. They have a great e-book fro free. More info here:http://www.symfony-project.org/.
There is also Symfony 2.X (http://symfony.com/), which have a lot of new features (e.g. new Doctrine 2.0). Especially with the bundle (plugin) https://github.com/FriendsOfSymfony/FOSRestBundle is the RESTful service quite easy.
Is Database class just a wrapper for ADO.NET which makes use of db simpler ? What's its limits ?
Yes - the Database Helper is a wrapper around ADO.NET. It is designed to minimize the code that a beginner needs to get started with querying databases, similar to how its done in PHP. Its limits depend on your point of view. As someone who is just starting to learn web development and databases, you might think that the helper is a stroke of genius. As a professional developer, you might not like the fact that it returns dynamic types or that it doesn't prevent people dynamically constructing their SQL and potentially opening up their application to SQL injection attacks.
Will be starting a web app that will have to provide many different HTML forms for data entry, so I was wondering if there is a web framework out there that does this in a clever way. generally when you have forms you have many considerations like navigation, validation, etc. that are not handled very efficiently by he frameworks I've seen so far.
Has someone taken the pain out of forms?
Have you tried looking at Grails? It can take your domain classes and dynamically scaffold them into web forms and apply server-side validation. The default scaffolding provides navigation, pagination, validation, and all kinds of other -ations that are pretty good!
Here's a good tutorial.
Try Qcodo.com, It is written in PHP (but fully OOP). It manages both database layer with nice Form templating system.
I think forms are handled pretty cleverly in Ruby on Rails. And also in .Net. The latter goes pretty far in letting you reuse the database logic for validating data and also has "automatic" handling of security issues like XSS and XSRF.