the religious debates between the Django and WSGI camps It would seem as though you’re a tad bit confused about what WSGI is and what Django is. Saying that Django and WSGI are competing is a bit like saying that C and SQL are competing: you’re comparing apples and oranges. Django is a framework, WSGI … Read more
Full disclosure: I’m one of the lead developers of Snap. First of all, let’s talk about what Snap is. Right now the Snap team maintains five different projects on hackage: snap-core, snap-server, heist, snap, and xmlhtml. snap-server is a web server that exposes the API defined by snap-core. heist is a templating system. xmlhtml is … Read more
Real life situation: placing bets on a betting website. Users would double click and get two bets placed. Not good! Javascript checks were not sufficient to prevent this. Solution: Create UUID/GUID hidden input in form using server-side scripting language that renders the form. On form submission immediately add this to a database table called UniqueSubmissions … Read more
Haven’t tried it myself, but I think http://www.playframework.org/ has a lot of potential… coming from php and classic asp, it’s the first java web framework that sounds promising to me…. Edit by original question asker – 2011-06-09 Just wanted to provide an update. I went with Play and it was exactly what I asked for. … Read more
I’m very interested in Scala, but I have not used it yet, so with that caveat, the frameworks I am aware of that are not mentioned in HRJ’s answer (Lift, Sweet, Slinky) are: Scalatra, previously Step (on GitHub) Play 2 (on GitHub) Pinky
I’ve used Tapestry 3, Wicket, Echo, and JSF fairly extensively. I’d really recommend you look those over and pick the one that appears the easiest for you, and to most closely fit the way you prefer to work. Of them, the most comfortable for me to work with was Wicket, due to the lightweight nature … Read more