I’ve been doing quite large application recently with Java – Swing. Now I’d like to move to web. Basically – I am not Microsoft guy, Java is fine with me. I’ve checked some basics of Java EE framework and decided that my choice will be Spring. I already am familiar with JDBC. Learning Spring is one thing, but working just with GUIs (C++ and Java) means that I have very poor knowledge of web development.
Before I start reading tutorials of Spring MVC, what should I know to develop web solutions? I am mainly interested “how to” with graphics … start from scratch or some nice IDE RAD-like development ? I kind of like f.e. Silverlight and integrating to web or asp.net win forms – allows us ‘GUI’ people develop faster. So can you please give me some useful advices?
Thanx
You might want to check http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ for some client-side GUI javascript code compilationn from Java language. The code might even look like Swing in a way 🙂
Another thing of note is, perhaps you might want to use something like Hibernate with Spring instead of using JDBC.