Re: Java Technology Stack
AlterEgo wrote:
3. We hope to leverage a relationship with Sun, so we want to make the IDE,
component and hardware platforms as Sun-centric as possible - doesn't have
to be "all Sun" if there is a technology that is substantially better for a
specific framework or component.
apache.org is a good place for certain libraries, like Base64 encoding, file
uploads, connection pooling and logging.
Development will be with NetBeans IDE 5.5.1
NetBeans 6 Beta 2 is stable enough to use also, and has expanded features.
You should let your developers use whatever IDE they want. There shouldn't be
any dependencies in your production code on the IDE, so it won't matter what
they use except to their productivity.
incorporating the Java EE 5 SDK.
That's be Glassfish, the open-source JEE server.
<https://glassfish.dev.java.net/>
Lots of good documentation there.
We plan on using the following technologies:
1. SOA - We will have B2B relationships with companies that have varying
skills and resources for accessing our services, so it may benefit us to
implement different technologies. I believe we will use both XML-RPC and Web
Services for a limited number of services: JAX-WS 2.0, JAX-RPC 1.1.
Avoid RPC-style SOAP if you are interoperating with .Net, otherwise it's very
convenient.
2. StAX - because it is more light-weight for parsing XML?
You rarely have to deal with XML parsing directly in most Web apps. Usually
it's done under the hood for you.
3. UI Development. JSP 2.1, JSTL 1.2. Java Servlet 2.5.
All these are implied by Java EE 5. Have you looked at Java Server Faces
(JSF)? There's a learning curve but it's powerful.
4. EJB 3.0,
Part of JEE 5.
JavaMail 1.4.1.
Read:
<http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc/>
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Lew