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Asked: 2026-06-17T20:11:50+00:00

This is a simple and very specific question: If you have been doing a

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This is a simple and very specific question: If you have been doing a project with .NET MVC4 and Entity Framework with lots of jQuery/Json using, of couse, Visual Studio 2012, and you are asked to produce a “Java-based” / “open” platform, what architecture / tools would you choose?.

I would prefer not to “automatically migrate”. I prefer to seriously re-code in a platform with similar features from point of view of ‘coding by conventions’ strong types..,DB generation from model, preferable code first..etc, integrated automating testing..etc

I am not trying here to go into any debate like ‘.net’ vs ‘java’ or things like that. This is just a concrete question about tooling and architecture. The reason of my asking is that I am a “java guy’ by birth but ended up in .NET for the last few years and I lost track of cool new things.

Without admitting ‘loving’ Microsoft, I have to confess I really like Visual Studio 2012, MVC4 and Entity Framework 5. But, lot of companies / people prefer Java for valid reasons I do not want to argue about.

I have been looking at Grails at some point but did not have time to compare all options seriously so I do not know.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Have you had a look at http://playframework.org/? As a c# programmer I found it real easy to find my way.

    It also implements the MVC pattern, and has some nice database connection stuff. I’ve used it with Google BigTable which is a different approach because there’s no table schema. And of course it has unittesting and selenium testing integrated. #awesome 🙂

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