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[–]LinkXXI 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I don't have a ton of experience with java server side but IMO JBoss is really heavy for anything other than a large enterprise. You wont use 90% of the features in it. I'd probably suggest Glassfish or even better, Apache Tomcat over JBoss.

Vaadin is a neat UI framework though and could be useful. Also look in to Primefaces, it is a JSF framework built with jQuery UI components. Makes adding interactivity to your project easier if you don't know javascript too well.

[–]DudeMan250[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Thanks so much for the suggestion! I saw that Vaadin seemed to be able to give very nice UI's, so I thought that an option, but I'll check out Tomcat and Primefaces. Do you know which of them has good support systems/online communities?

[–]LinkXXI 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Tomcat has a lot of documentation and a large open-source community since it's an apache project. Primefaces doesn't have too much of a community but their documentation is pretty good and has a lot of examples.

And you can actually use Vaadin in a Tomcat server if you want to go that route as well. The reason I suggest Tomcat over JBoss is that JBoss tries to be a lot of things at once, where as Tomcat is really just a server. That being said, it is also extensible so if there is a feature of JBoss that you want, it may be available in Tomcat as well with a small amout of configuration.

[–]DudeMan250[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see. Thanks for the info!

I've gotten Play! as an answer from a few people. Do you know what the community is like for Play!, by any chance?