Choose 'better' or more familiar technologies for a new project?

Question

I am looking to start work on a brand-new project, something I\'ve been thinking about for a while as my first independent sellable project. It\'s broadly speaking a web-based s

Answer 1

When starting a new project limit the number of unfamiliar technologies / frameworks to use. Every framework takes time to learn and every framework has issues especially if not implemented correctly.

If you can I would recommend you look into the Play framework. It is a web framework for Java that focuses on developer productivity. You can choose to use Spring / Hibernate if you want but you are not bound by that. It has a very easy to learn implementation and you should be able to get a good idea within a day of playing around with it if it is what you are looking for.