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The framework covers most of the non-functional needs a business application has, out of the box. These are capabilities like "Soft deletion", "Audit Log", "Row Level Security". In its nature as a Meta-Framework (building upon existing Java Libraries & Frameworks), it has a rock-solid basis. Spring, JPA, Vaadin as well as Gradle are in itself very mature and powerful.
As CUBA is also a Full-Stack Framework, covering all the aspects of building a business web application, it allows you to speed up the development of applications easily by the factor of 2-3.
This is achieved on the one side by the fact that what you develop - you will develop faster. This is mainly achieved by a lot of good (business-app required) abstractions and also because the code generation of CUBA studio frees you up from typing a lot (and testing it).
On the other side by the fact that you just don't need to develop certain things on your own, that you would otherwise have to implement with non-trivial sub-project efforts (a good example of that is the "generic Filter capability for Tables / Data Grids). Another example is the reporting capabilities that are shipped as an open-source addon.
For the dedicated business logic, CUBA does not at all stand in your way. In this respect, the code that you will write is almost exactly the same as any other kind of Spring application. It might just change your mind in terms of what you associate with the term "business logic" because a lot of code that you have previously written is just gone (because of the above-mentioned points).
CUBA lets you focus on the really important things in business applications: encoded business rules that drive the ultimate purpose of the business application at hand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
CUBA embraces the Vaadin approach of web development: write UI code in Java. When it comes to UI development it in fact is very efficient, but also not the most natural thing to do. When you come from a JS background, this requires somewhat of different thinking (although the UI APIs are not really problematic to grasp over other technologies). One example of this: In the JS react world "everything is a component". This is theoretically also true for Vaadin, but in practice, it requires more work to create custom components.
Moreover, with Vaadin, you inherit the architectural model of the UI Framework, which is stateful on the server-side. This is also not the most prominent architecture nowadays (2020), but it turns out (again) for business applications with limited scaling requirements (scaling in the sense of "Facebook order-of-magnitude" kind of scaling). CUBA applications can easily scale up to 10.000+ concurrent users (and probably millions of non-concurrent users), but with different resource requirements over a stateless 12-factor application.
But this is only bound to its Vaadin based front-end. It is also possible to replace Vaadin with a React-based FE, which will eliminate this "downside". But as there is also no free lunch in the JS-based world, a couple of standard functionalities from CUBA & Vaadin will have to be re-implemented then. Also, the Javascript Ecosystem comes with its own complexities and drawbacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Jmix is the best option to develop world-class bussiness applications in Java.
Its magic resides in the ability to develop a full stack solution without being a front end developer. Its library of GUI components is good enough of any business application, specially those form-based. The data binding happens magically and enables the developer to focus on the business logic. It is extensible, API ready for integrations. Also Its report module is also very useful. The Entity Log is really powerful and it was a differentiator in our case.
Using IntelliJ as a tool is a plus too.
The documentation is complete and the user forum is active too, I always found the answers I needed.
If you need to create and mantain a business application for a department, go for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I don't have enough complains, happy with the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Jmix has been a fantastic tool for our academic research projects. As a small team, we especially appreciate the ability to develop the entire application stack, from database to frontend, using just Java code. This significantly reduces development time and complexity. Additionally, our students with basic Java knowledge can pick up Jmix quickly, making it an excellent fit for our academic environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It's important to evaluate the long-term viability of Jmix 1.5 projects. While Jmix 1.5 offers Long-Term Support (LTS), developers should consider the potential benefits of migrating to Jmix 2.x, particularly if a more modern UI framework or advanced features are desired. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is very comfortable and uderstandable to use its modules. Nowadays speed matters. With Jmix we speed up the process develpment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
So far, everything is fine. No claims :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Open IntelliJ, start writing your business logic and DON'T waste time writing templates, authentication, RBAC, screen management, middlewares, migrations... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I'd love some "magic" auto UI ala Apache Causeway: take my models, let me define actions elsewhere and come up with the UI yourself. (That would also save me from writing a single UI test) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- Easy to use
- I was able to create an Intranet for my company with limited java skills.
- easy to deploy
- appreciate the various add-ons
- Customer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- Needs a larger community.
- More help for inexperienced programmers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Able to create applications in a fraction of the time it used to take, REST API has now become an absolute breeze. Fantastic documentation and great forums. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Need to get more developers using Jmix so we can grow the name. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Jmix is based on the most popular Java framework - Spring (Spring Boot) for the backend, with integrated Vaadin for the frontend UI. By choosing both frameworks, Jmix provided a full-stack framework for Java/Kotlin developers.
As a leader of the development team in an IT consulting company, I feel Jmix is an awesome framework, due to the following reasons:
1. It integrates the most popular Java frameworks and libraries. Developers are willing to learn and use it with happiness.
2. It provides Jmix Studio to help developers accelerate the pace of delivery, through code snippets, visual designers for data model/UI page/business process/roles, one-click local run, etc. Such that our developers are just focused on our business logic without writing a lot of boilerplate codes.
3. It provides a lot of ready-to-use add-ons with all needed parts from database to UI, like BPM/Charts/Email/Maps, etc.
4. They provided detailed documentation.
5. They have a developers' forum, where we can search for similar issues or ask new questions.
6. When delivering the products to customers, there is no license fee at all, this is a huge advantage compared with those low-code platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I think one of the downsides is that Jmix uses Vaadin 8, which is hard to be customized, especially since we have customers in China, who like "beautiful" UI. Sometimes we spent a half-day adjusting the style of a Table or Datagrid. But glad to say, Jmix team has the plan to upgrade the Vaadin framework to the latest LTS version 23+, which should be much better I expect.
By the way, we have projects that need highly customized frontend UI, and Jmix Rest SDK is not perfect enough, we need to implement basic functionalities like token refresh. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
