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Re: Ask HN: What technologies should I use for my web application project?

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Post by hrasm »

kls wrote: post #9
hrasm wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am very interested to know how you gracefully fallback to noscript mode. I am asking because I am in the process of building something that does fallback gracefully in noscript mode. It is extra work no doubt. Is it really worth it? Would love to hear your thoughts on this.

No it is not worth it in 90% of our cases, we monitor traffic religiously and you greatly compound your cost to chase what (according to out stats) is less than 5% of the market, when you compound that by the fact that you are not going to convert that entire 5% the numbers are dismal for adding the cost and complexity to a project. We have found that one average that building in fallback modes adds 15% to 20% of cos…

Thanks for the informative response. Redirecting clients to separate site is a nifty idea. I might do just that.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies should I use for my web application project?

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Post by keefe »

kls wrote: post #4

We use HTML / CSS / and JavaScript exclusively for our front ends. We no longer use any intermediary or server bound languages such as PHP or JSP. We have found this to be faster to develop and more portable across back ends. If you decide to go the Java route for your back end I would use JAX-RS and EJB 3. With EJB 3 you can use a tradition DB and not have to worry about all the mapping that generally has to take pl…

Overall I agree, preferring a ReST model with JSON. I do use java and i'm not particularly excited about JAX-RS (never used) or EJB3 (have used) . If I recall properly, then EJB3 merges with hibernate which I have used a lot, so it's not a bad choice. I use the gson parser for objectjson mapping. Overall, I think this is a solid style because it enforces MVC and scales nicely for everything but seo.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies should I use for my web application project?

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Post by manish_chhabra »

roam wrote: post #12
rlawson wrote: post #10

if you choose Java, don't slow yourself down with full J2EE stack. Stick with Tomcat + Stripes (or any MVC layer) + Hibernate or iBatis + Spring or Guice

Or go for the Play framework: http://www.playframework.org/

Thanks I checked out both Play Framework and Stripes Presentation Frameworks. There is so much out there, it is amazing!

Re: Ask HN: What technologies should I use for my web application project?

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Post by manish_chhabra »

keefe wrote: post #14

I responded before reading the full post, stick with what you know and do restful json, couchdb is also worth looking into for prototyping. As long as your interfaces are clean you should be good. Also consider security.

Thanks, I have decided to use RESTful JSON with Spring 3 + Jackson, mysql db.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies should I use for my web application project?

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Post by keefe »

manish_chhabra wrote: post #16
keefe wrote: post #14

I responded before reading the full post, stick with what you know and do restful json, couchdb is also worth looking into for prototyping. As long as your interfaces are clean you should be good. Also consider security.

Thanks, I have decided to use RESTful JSON with Spring 3 + Jackson, mysql db.

why mysql instead of postgres?

Re: Ask HN: What technologies should I use for my web application project?

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Post by manish_chhabra »

keefe wrote: post #17
manish_chhabra wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, I have decided to use RESTful JSON with Spring 3 + Jackson, mysql db.

why mysql instead of postgres?

I have been reading about postgres after your comment but still not able to see how feature rich and less mature postgres would benefit me more?

I haven't used postgres before so I am not the best person to comment on it. Is there any significant advantage of using Postgres of MySql?

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