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Java web framework advice/recommendations?

  • 14-10-2010 09:11PM
    #1
    El Hamos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ✭


    Hello all,

    I am in my third year of a Bsc in Computing and am considering developing a web app, on the side. This project is purely to get some experience of MVC model in Java and in turn, perhaps making myself more employable. I have done some research and there are just too many options:D. Without worrying about the specifics of the app, I want to develop a rich interface with a Java backend. The best choices for RIA seem to be:
    • JSF with ICEFaces
    • Flex front-end with Java backend (have some experience with Adobe Flex)
    • Java FX
    • Apache Wicket
    • Tapestry
    And the most sought after frameworks, job wise, seem to be:
    • Struts
    • Spring
    • Hibernate
    • JSF
    I was considering the possibility of using JSF(ICEFaces) for the presentation layer, along with Spring or Hibernate behind it?? Any recommendations?
    Or should I just stick to JSP/Servlets/EJB's and Entity Beans and then move on to a framework?
    Any advice is appreciated.....

    Cheers!


Comments

  • #2
    lynchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭lynchie


    At the moment I'm using Flex talking to a restful web service (Jersey) which in turn is using JPA (Hibernate) for persistence. Running on Tomcat right now, but will migrate to full J2EE/ EJB3 soon enough. Flex definitely allows for building quick RIA interfaces and its xml handling using e4x is very good.


  • #3
    El Hamos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ✭El Hamos


    Hey, Lynchie....I was considering something similar using Flex. The only problem is I have a limited knowledge of actionscript but any choice is going to involve some learning, so it's not a major deterrent (it is OO, so not too concerned). But there does seem to be a demand for flex developers.
    You mentioned RESTFUL support and that is something I almost overlooked. JSF seems to be poor in that respect? I will not decide for a week or two, after some more research and hopefully some more feedback here...


  • #4
    irishguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭irishguy


    From an employment point of view I would use Spring, JSP (With tiles/JSTL/Some JS library) hibernate and an Oracle backend.

    If you had time then you could play around with some webservices.

    All of the above would teach you a lot and make you employable.


  • #5
    Civilian_Target
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,618 ✭✭✭Civilian_Target


    How about GWT + Spring? If you really want to go exotic, a no-SQL backend like CouchDB could be interesting :)


  • #6
    bpmurray
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭bpmurray


    Modern systems are moving to rich web GUIs calling a REST service, so that's something you should consider. When we designed JSF, this usage wasn't really common, but IceFaces has enabled real AJAX interactions, so that's a pretty good option. I think Struts is starting to show its age, and I'd be concerned about locking myself into Flex (you may want to use the iPhone as a client). Spring/Hibernate are pretty useful though for the backend.


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