Ask HN: What Web framework do you recommend for a Java Shop?

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by nikhilkmenon • 12 years ago

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As per ThoughtWorks Technology Radar (http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/#/languages-and-frameworks), they don't recommend JSF. Struts has also lost its edge in the last few years.

Play Framework is still in 'Trial' category per the radar.

However, Dropwizard framework is in 'Adopt' category. [http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/#/languages-and-frameworks]

Interestingly, Spring MVC was not even mentioned.

What are your suggestions?

babs474• 12 years ago

I have heard very positive things about dropwizard, but also consider Grails.

myrryr• 12 years ago

Not dropwizard. It is really really good if you are building rest services for other things to talk to. it is not so good on the web side of things, but then again, it isn't meant to be.

Spring MVC is still good enough for most things. Stay away from JSF.

moocow01• 12 years ago

Play Framework 1.X has worked great for us and 2.X is getting there but Id only recommend to the more adventurous

alexgaribay• 12 years ago

I'm building a webapp with play 2.2 and it's quite a nice framework. A nice thing about play is Scala can be used if you so choose.

devb0x• 12 years ago

jersey

sundar22in• 12 years ago

grails is the best framework I have seen so far. sensible defaults inspired from rails is good. you don't have to learn groovy since it is a superset of java. you can learn on the way .... very less entry barrier and learning curve

Ask HN: What Web framework do you recommend for a Java Shop?

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