Hi Jose
We use J2EE technologies (servlets/JSP/JDBC etc but not EJB) at Queen
Mary, University of London to develop some central database systems
(e.g. RAE database, course evaluation system, web interfaces for legacy
student records system) though these are more medium sized than large
systems. Currently we use Struts for the web tier, and Eclipse for the
IDE. Might use the Spring/Hibernate combination for future development.
On the Friday topic the Ruby/Rails combination for database-driven web
applications is certainly the current fashion and probably does
facilitate faster development at least for fairly straightforward
systems. But if only because of its newness I'd be careful about using
it for a large or critical system, and the lack of decent development
tools doesn't help. Java is a very solid technology with a vast range of
third-party libraries and frameworks, many of them open source, and a
lot of people already have the necessary skills.
John.
On 02/02/2006 16:39, Jose Casal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been asked to find some examples of Universities that develop
> large, database driven applications using J2EE, with or without a portal
> environment. We are looking at moving our development environment to a
> Java-based one from mostly PHP (and in some cases Perl, ASP, Python,...).
>
> Would anyone be able to give me some examples of systems that you have
> purchased, built or are working on? Or other examples that you know of?
>
> If anyone else is interested , I will be happy to report back to the list.
>
> Many thanks for your help
>
> Jose
|