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

It depends what the customer wants (in the world of consultancy). You have to learn new technologies. Does the customer wants to pay for that?

Not all the caveats of the new ones are known, whereas the older ones are proven a lot more.

Of course, if everybody thought like this we would all be stuck with VB these days. You have to look for the right balance, and learn a lot yourself too so you can get an objective view on the technologies available, their up and downsides.

Answer 2

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.