Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: markspace <-@.> Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Developing a Team collaboration/MIS web app Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 07:47:08 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <4fa425a4$0$284$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 14:47:12 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="zgW2MA4sFrKxp4jMohs6RQ"; logging-data="13568"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Mt5iFaFF+0ttiiHOslQHMVcc1oC0jyy8=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:99J57BwTOBZ+NPa4adUi0ODd9B4= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:14282 On 5/4/2012 10:07 PM, ruds wrote: > As, I am doing this alone and have no other guidance, I might be > asking the very basic questions which might be very easy for others. > Please do understand and guide me. So your project basically has no requirements except what you want to do. I'd still attempt to collect some ideas from your team. Talk to some folks over lunch about what they'd like to see in the new system. If you can get some people excited about the project, you might get extra time, or resources, or accolades. This is all just basic workplace skills here. Assuming you want to keep Java, I'd recommend looking into a full JEE container. The latest EJB 3.0 stuff is easier to program that a bare Tomcat container. It's a bit more to learn, but faster once you get the hang of it. The book Core JSF 2.0 helped me a lot (there's a lot of bad books out there too; Core JSF isn't one of them). I don't know of anything like a website bbs/forum for Java off-hand. I'm sure there's some out there, but Java isn't a single product like Drupal or something where they concentrate on pre-built modules. There's a few CMSs for JEE, but they tend to be heavy-weight things that assume a considerable time investment to learn. I think it would actually be faster to write your own simple bbs. It's basically one table and a couple of views. Of course, if you need many features, finding something appropriate and adapting it becomes more worth the time spent. (There's that whole "it depends on features" thing again.) There's some good open source here you can look through, and of course there's Google too. Good luck.