How Seam beats Grails ?

[Hussein Baghdadi]

Hi Michael.
I have been reading your weblog: Are Rails and Grails Scalable?.
How Seam beats Grails ?
I got to feel : JSF == poor performance , since JSF components are created on the server, their state should be saved some where (client or server).
Thanks for your time.

[Michael Yuan]

JSF is certainly slower than Struts -- but I do not think the overhead JSF adds is that important in the grand scheme of things. With a dual core machine, I can easily drive a JSF+Seam+EJB3+DB application to more than 200 transactions per second -- that is much faster than most developers ever need. In the real world, the performance bottleneck is probably from other layers of the app.

Re Grails: I think you do pay a price in performance for using those cute "dynamic languages" BTW, Seam 1.3 will provide Groovy integration as well. So, you can much of the same things as Grails in Seam!

[Hussein Baghdadi]

Re Grails: I think you do pay a price in performance for using those cute "dynamic languages"

But Groovy code is byte code after all, right ?