Re: Developing a webapplication with JSF/J2EE: where do I start?

[Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ewout N Boter skrev:
> We are investigating some possibilities to jump on the web-application 
> bandwagon. Our resources are limited, and we have decided to explore two 
> alternatives: Groovy on Grails on one hand, and a combination of JSF, J2EE 
> and IceFaces on the other hand. (If anyone can convince us that one of 
> these alternatives is by far better than the other, we might consider to 
> drop one alternative immediately!). I will start exploring the latter 
> alternative, and a colleague will follow the Groovy-trail. 
>
> Now, an obvious question is: where do I start? In my opinion, it's very 
>   
I would suggest you start looking into JPA (which is a part of JEE 5) 
which allow you to easily move information back and forth between 
database tables and java objects.  By choosing the Hibernate 
implementation of JPA you can use the DB2/400 dialect directly.  Note 
that apparently it requires that the DB2/400 tables are journalled.

It is a bit steep to start with, but when learned you get REALLY much 
functionality for almost free.