Web Application Framework

I have a web application developed using tiles/struts/hibernate on
jboss, I am planning to redesign this using web 2.0 and looking for a
better framework to use and easier migration process. I was looking at
grails but it is a new framework and brings lot of challenges
integrating in jboss. So anybody has any recommendation or any
experience with any specific web application framework?

Thanks
Suresh

Why not Spring?  They cover the front end with Spring MVC, and the back end with Dependency Injection and is becoming more widely adopted all the time. ; We use Spring for the back-end in our shop and are considering it their MVC implementation for the front end.  We are still experimenting with MVC, but it looks interesting.  I'm curious to read the thoughts of anyone who has used MVC for a while or some of the other front end tools.  We are also considering Google Web Toolkit as well.


Regards,

James White

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Suresh < suresh_sryahoo.com">suresh_sryahoo.com> wrote:

I have a web application developed using tiles/struts/hibernate on
jboss, I am planning to redesign this using web 2.0 and looking for a
better framework to use and easier migration process. I was looking at
grails but it is a new framework and brings lot of challenges
integrating in jboss. So anybody has any recommendation or any
experience with any specific web application framework?

Thanks
Suresh

I think you have to describe your purpose of redesign in more detail. "Using Web 2.0" is a very generic scope .

some hints ..
Do you want to redesign&nbsp; to
Ajaxify your UI.
Performance Improvement.
Scalability
etc....e lities....
 

Some of the Web Frameworks I used and where migration would be simple&nbsp; .
Spring MVC
Struts 2.
JSF
GWT
DWR  for AJAX (there are tons of frameworks and libs for AJAX)



Cheers!!

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Suresh < suresh_sryahoo.com" target="_blank">suresh_sryahoo.com> wrote:

I have a web application developed using tiles/struts/hibernate on
jboss, I am planning to redesign this using web 2.0 and looking for a
better framework to use and easier migration process. I was looking at
grails but it is a new framework and brings lot of challenges
integrating in jboss. So anybody has any recommendation or any
experience with any specific web application framework?

Thanks
Suresh

I would stongly recommend that you look at Spring and script.aculo.us.&nbsp; I would also recommend that you look at Google Web Toolkit.&nbsp; Becuase everything starts in Java you can easily write unit tests.&nbsp;  For the kind of high end applications we do, hibernate is an excellent ORM library that integrates well with inversion of control and Spring.&nbsp;  Hope that helps.

Tom Tappan
Development Manager - Bank of America Corporation

On 3/20/08, Suresh < suresh_sryahoo.com">suresh_sryahoo.com> wrote:

I have a web application developed using tiles/struts/hibernate on
jboss, I am planning to redesign this using web 2.0 and looking for a
better framework to use and easier migration process. I was looking at
grails but it is a new framework and brings lot of challenges
integrating in jboss. So anybody has any recommendation or any
experience with any specific web application framework?

Thanks
Suresh

I've been using GWT for the last 8 months to move what was a fat Java client/server program to be a Web 2.0 app.  I've been very happy with it.&nbsp; It is pretty easy for Java programmers to learn it - especially if you have any Swing/AWT/SWT GUI experience.

Tom


Vishal Patil wrote:

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I think you have to describe your purpose of redesign in more detail. "Using Web 2.0" is a very generic scope .

some hints ..
Do you want to redesign&nbsp; to
Ajaxify your UI.
Performance Improvement.
Scalability
etc....e lities....
 

Some of the Web Frameworks I used and where migration would be simple&nbsp; .
Spring MVC
Struts 2.
JSF
GWT
DWR&nbsp; for AJAX (there are tons of frameworks and libs for AJAX)



Cheers!!

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Suresh <yahoo.com" target="_blank">suresh_sryahoo.com> wrote:

I have a web application developed using tiles/struts/hibernate on
jboss, I am planning to redesign this using web 2.0 and looking for a
better framework to use and easier migration process. I was looking at
grails but it is a new framework and brings lot of challenges
integrating in jboss. So anybody has any recommendation or any
experience with any specific web application framework?

Thanks
Suresh

Definitely check out DWR if you have an investment in Java code that
you need to keep around. The RPC is really clean and basically
handled out of the box for you. I've used it to expose Spring
services and Hibernate beans in JavaScript, and it Just Works.

-Fred

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Rakesh Vidyadharan < rakesh%40rakeshv.org">rakeshrakeshv.org> wrote:
&gt; The least invasive would be to use DWR, YUI, Google API etc for the
> web 2.0 features and stay within your existing server side framework.
> If you want true MVC UI framework without the nastiness of RPC
> programming model, look at Echo2/Echo3.
>
> Rakesh
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> On 20 Mar 2008, at 01:19 PM, Suresh wrote:
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>; > I have a web application developed using tiles/struts/hibernate on
> > jboss, I am planning to redesign this using web 2.0 and looking for a
> > better framework to use and easier migration process. I was looking at
> > grails but it is a new framework and brings lot of challenges
> > integrating in jboss. So anybody has any recommendation or any
> > experience with any specific web application framework?

--
Science answers questions; philosophy questions answers.

I would also take a look at Adobe Flex if this is new development. Flex offers an Eclipse based development environment and a lot of great features. And the common runtime environment eliminates many types of problems encountered, by AJAX applications, across OS' and Browsers .

Regards,
Mike


On Friday, March 21, 2008, at 10:31AM, "Rakesh Vidyadharan" < rakesh%40rakeshv.org">rakeshrakeshv.org> wrote:
&gt;The least invasive would be to use DWR, YUI, Google API etc for the
>web 2.0 features and stay within your existing server side framework.
>If you want true MVC UI framework without the nastiness of RPC
>programming model, look at Echo2/Echo3.
>
>Rakesh
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>&gt; I have a web application developed using tiles/struts/hibernate on
>&gt; jboss, I am planning to redesign this using web 2.0 and looking for a
>&gt; better framework to use and easier migration process. I was looking at
>&gt; grails but it is a new framework and brings lot of challenges
>> integrating in jboss. So anybody has any recommendation or any
>> experience with any specific web application framework?
>>
>> Thanks
&gt;> Suresh
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Hi Suresh,

No doubt you will get responses for favorite frameworks. I suppose mine
is no different, but I do have reasons. I've used JSF with Facelets in the
past, and on my last project I included RichFaces. I'm happy with my
choice, whatever that tells you. If you're interested, I'll have an article
(with online demo) about the combination at the developerWorks Java zone in
the next week or two. I'll probably stay with that combination, although
I'll keep my eye on Woodstock and IceFaces, among others, for component
suites.

That's mostly assuming your idea of "Web 2.0" is essentially RIA with
AJAX enablement. If your definition is different, and there are many out
there, then excuse the noise.

Another framework worth investigating is Wicket, which has some
appealing features.

And, since you're currently using Struts, you might review Struts 2.

I think someone counted around 80 frameworks out there. While I don't
advocate being a lemming, you have to get a short list somehow. The things
to keep in mind are current and future support, development, viability and
similar. HTH for some input.

Joe Sam

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I have a web application developed using tiles/struts/hibernate on
jboss, I am planning to redesign this using web 2.0 and looking for a
better framework to use and easier migration process. I was looking at
grails but it is a new framework and brings lot of challenges
integrating in jboss. So anybody has any recommendation or any
experience with any specific web application framework?

Thanks
Suresh