Choosing Java Spring as a scalable server-side framework for a large website

Question

I\'m currently facing a dilema regarding the appropriate server-side framework to use.

Basically, I want to choose the best framework for building a large website to ser

Answer 1

Another good choice - and a standards based one at that - would simply be Java EE. EE 6 is a good option, and JBoss AS 7 - which supports EE 6 - has made great headway, is small, efficient and lightning fast. And is free and open source.

Java EE 6, as a standard, has pretty much all you'd need: CDI as a programming model, web front-end based on JSF, JAX-RS for RESTful web services, JPA2 for object-relational mapping, and if you so need it, JMS messaging, etc etc. Sun/Oracle's Java EE 6 tutorial is probably the place to start if you want to learn about this tech.

And if you choose to go with JBoss as a runtime environment, you have great tooling as well - a set of Eclipse plugins to make building Java EE apps a snap.