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]]> By: Sergei Batiuk http://webapp-consulting.com/archives/35/comment-page-1#comment-38610 Sergei Batiuk Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:20:06 +0000 http://webapp-consulting.com/archives/35#comment-38610 I think that Java has lost its positions to other technologies in the area of small web applications is primarily because it was always marketed as an 'Enterprise Platform' and was treated as such. There was (and still is) no clear concept of how a small web application should be developed and/or deployed on the Java platform. I believe, however, that Java can serve small applications perfectly fine. In terms of deployment, you can easily run multiple websites on a shared Tomcat instance. Tomcat has the capability to reload web applications without the need to restart Tomcat instance. Resin and Jetty will probably do the job even better. The problem is about tools. What is really missing is a lightweight framework that allows easy development of boilerplate code in web applications. Frameworks like Struts, JSF etc. are pretty heavyweight in terms of learning, development and deployment. The concept of 'convention over configuration' is becoming really popular and sounds really promising. It really seems to lower the barrier of learning and requires much less code to get up and running. But I am not convinced about performance. Let's see what happens. I think that Java has lost its positions to other technologies in the area of small web applications is primarily because it was always marketed as an ‘Enterprise Platform’ and was treated as such. There was (and still is) no clear concept of how a small web application should be developed and/or deployed on the Java platform.

I believe, however, that Java can serve small applications perfectly fine. In terms of deployment, you can easily run multiple websites on a shared Tomcat instance. Tomcat has the capability to reload web applications without the need to restart Tomcat instance. Resin and Jetty will probably do the job even better.

The problem is about tools. What is really missing is a lightweight framework that allows easy development of boilerplate code in web applications. Frameworks like Struts, JSF etc. are pretty heavyweight in terms of learning, development and deployment.

The concept of ‘convention over configuration’ is becoming really popular and sounds really promising. It really seems to lower the barrier of learning and requires much less code to get up and running. But I am not convinced about performance. Let’s see what happens.

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