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Recently I’ve been trying to build a web app using Vaadin, Spring MVC, part of the Spring Release, and EJB3 on top of Jboss 5.1.

Vaadin
Check out the Vaadin application widget sampler. Its got a lot of neat toys and widgets, all programmable via java. Think of if as the love child of Swing and Web 2.0. Its built on top of Google’s Web Toolkit framework and offers an application experience centric approach to UI on the web. There is an active forum so theres a community to ask for help once you get through the tutorials. I’ll post a link up once I’m done with my UI so you can get an idea of what it can do. I’m liking this so far.

Spring MVC 3.0
I’m liking how Spring MVC uses annotations to configure the servlet mappings and how flexible the framework is in that it you can mix in xml configuration or not. There’s a away to get Spring to work with Vaadin but I havn’t figured it out yet. Ideally, I think id like to build the widgets using Vaadin and glue it together using Spring’s Framework. I’m starting to think thats the wrong approach though, so I may change my mind about it.

Jboss 5.1
Yes I know 6 M1 is out but 5.1 is the most recent full GA release. 6M1 is supposed to have dependency injection working with servlets which is AWESUM but im going to wait until most of the bugs are squared away. I’m a big Jboss fan but I’d rather wait for a final version before taking a closer look.

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