Stripes, Spring, Play (or ?) : which high performance Java framework to use?

Question

We are beginning to build out a webapp which will probably see a lot of traffic. We dont have a lot of money, so we want to reduce hardware cost. More or less, I think that mean

Answer 1

Spring Roo (integrating Spring MVC) could be a good solution for you: this is pure java (easy to find freelancers), performant and easy to use with principles applied like Convention Over configuration;

Grails is also a good solution but you will need more hadware capabilities than Spring Roo and freelancers will be more difficult to find.