Re: Developing a webapplication with JSF/J2EE: where do I start?

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Ewout N Boter wrote:

We are investigating some possibilities to jump on the web-application
bandwagon. Our resources are limited, and we have decided to explore two
alternatives: Groovy on Grails on one hand, and a combination of JSF, J2EE
and IceFaces on the other hand. (If anyone can convince us that one of
these alternatives is by far better than the other, we might consider to
drop one alternative immediately!). I will start exploring the latter
alternative, and a colleague will follow the Groovy-trail.

I have recently started digging into web applications as well. After talking to a number of people and doing my own research I decided to use the Spring framework ( http://www.springsource.org/ ). Spring is supposed to have several advantages over JSF including being easier to code for. I have no experience with JSF and my Spring experience consists mainly of following the tutorial, so take everything I say with a grain of salt. That said, Spring was developed after a leading expert in J2EE development wrote a book about some of the shortcomings of J2EE and made several suggestions as to how it could be improved. Spring is the result. Spring can also use JPA and Hibernate which seem to be good database access frameworks.

Just though I'd throw in what I've been studying up on lately. I am very, very green in this area.

James Rich

if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on
the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond
when you're done reading them :)
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