Question

I am developing a gwt project and am looking for an appropriate server side technology.

it should support be open source and support user login (and not using openID…) with password recovery etc

it seems that the de-facto standard would be spring + hibernate. however, I am unfamiliar with neither of them and understand that the learning curve (especially for spring) is very high. gwt was quite easy to learn using GOOG’s excellent online tutorials but the spring equivalent seem to impose lots of configuration files and deeper understanding of its internals.

so I am looking for a simpler server side technology to deploy my gwt app. I am definitely prepared to learn a new framework if necessary but not something that would take me 2 months just to understand the fundamentals…

any ideas…?

Answer 1

Spring Roo should get you started with a GWT app in no time. It even has scaffoling (like Rails) for easily generating code for views and models. Here is a good video that introduces Roo and here is a guide for the mandentory 10 minutes application that Rails pioneered years ago.

Also a cool thing about Roo is that it gets you started quickly while still doing everything correctly (i.e. integrate with Spring security, Hibernate, Maven, …).

Edit: You could also try Vaadin (tutorial here) although I am unsure if that may be to simplistic for your needs.