I am looking for a robust REST framework to eliminate all that boilerplate code with starting up a new REST-only web service (mobile clients). Is there a framework that already has this built-in where I could, for example, simply build the domain models and run with it? I would like to see:
Authentication & User Model
Logging
Basic CRUD
Permissions (for model access)
Scalability
It seems every web service at a minimum needs the above capabilities. Somebody, somewhere must have written a good re-usable framework with the above capabilities. Any ideas? I would prefer Node.js, Java or even hosting with a PaaS service provider that offers these features.
Spring 3 MVC provides a very nice and simple annotation based framework for REST.
See http://blog.springsource.org/2009/03/08/rest-in-spring-3-mvc/ it can be deployed on any java web server like Jetty or Tomcat.
A framework like XAP provides a combined solution of Spring and Jetty plus it's built for dynamic scaling.
See http://www.gigaspaces.com/xap.
Last if you want to easily on board this solution on any cloud CloudifySource provides an open source project which includes XAP capabilities and PaaS.
See http://www.cloudifysource.org
I use Symfony 1.4 for this. It is an PHP framework. It generates most of what you need for free. The database stuff is also quite easy as the Symfony uses ORM libraries (you can choose but I can recommend Doctrine: http://www.doctrine-project.org/).
For example the whole backend site(admin) generating is a matter of running one command. They have a great e-book fro free. More info here:http://www.symfony-project.org/.
There is also Symfony 2.X (http://symfony.com/), which have a lot of new features (e.g. new Doctrine 2.0). Especially with the bundle (plugin) https://github.com/FriendsOfSymfony/FOSRestBundle is the RESTful service quite easy.
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We need a restful backend that provides APIs for a mobile app.
We also need a admin website to manage the restful backend.
Right now we have Sails.js as the backend framework, Vue.js as the frontend framework.
I m pretty new to MVC frameworks and I am a little bit confused how should these two frameworks interact with each other:
Should:
The frontend framework lives indepedently (maybe on a separate server), it calls api exposed by the backend framework, or
The frontend framework lives INSIDE the Sails.js, acting as the "views" for the Sails framework
I am not even 100% sure is my question a valid question, I want to know which are the popular ways and is there any pros and cons?
You can do both i.e. keep frontend framework in Sails project as well as separate independent project.
I have done both and I keep following points in mind while making this decision:
If the project is complex enough then its better to create a separate project using some scaffolding tool.
If the project is going to change frequently and evolve on its own then also its better to create a separate project.
If some one time/small view is to be made then I would prefer to keep it part of Sails project
Since you are using frontend framework for admin panel which I think
will be complex, I would recommend you to create separate project on the same server.
You can use yeoman for scaffolding. I have used it for some angular projects and it works great.
Your question is too wide for a single explanation, but the main concept is as per my understanding is data binding.
You can find a lot of free screencasts for starting from scratch, assuming you already know some JavaScript.
We are making a web based application in Java that should be accessible to any device and so we zeroed in for Restlet for our REST based web service need.
For UI we are thinking of Freemarker together with Twitter bootstrap and database will be mongoDB. And guice for dependency injection.
Since I am new to most these technology stack, do you think this is fair choice for a long run. Also, for database mapper framework we decided to use Jongo it seems lightweight. Kundera is an option but it has lots of dependency. What you expert say ?
"Kundera is an option but it has lots of dependency." Not sure what do you mean by this statement? could you please explain it more?
Please take a look at https://github.com/impetus-opensource/Kundera/wiki/Kundera-Mongo-performance for performance using Kundera!
It really depends on your needs
REST Framework :
IHMO you should test at least theses 3 JAX-RS Frameworks : RestEasy / Jersey / Restlet and choose the one according to your needs.
JAX-RS Frameworks
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1710199/which-is-the-best-java-rest-api-restlet-or-jersey
UI :
I've worked with Jersey + Freemarker through a framework called Webengine from Nuxeo, it was ok.
Nevertheless, you should consider a rich client approach based on Javascript/CSS/HTML (see Backbone.js, Ember.js)
Pros :
With such approach you could expose JSON REST services using a JAX-RS Framework (instead of freemarker/html services) .
Theses services can be consumed by a web application and/or native mobile apps (ios, android).
Cons:
Your team must have advanced javascript skills (this blog can help )
Database :
What kind of data do you need to store ?
MongoDB is document-oriented and flexible enough to cover lots of needs
As you said, Jongo is a lightweight API (500 lines of code + 1 dependency) over mongo-java-driver.
It allows you to query MongoDB as if you were in MongoShell (ie. with plain json/bson queries) and map your object using jackson.
This question is a good example: Mongo DB query in java
Relying on Restlet Framework for your RESTful web API/service backend sounds like a good choice for a multi-devices application. FreeMarker is very powerful and flexible so you should be in good company there as well.
I don't know too much about the other pieces of your stack.
Is Google Web Toolkit is fine to develop database based web application or do you have any other suggestion?
Thanks to answerers!
For a heavy Database based web application, nothing beats Grails. Check out this tutorial by IBM. It will show you the power of Grails and how easy it is to develop database based web applications in minutes. I love GWT and smartGwt, but will go for them over pure grails only if there is a lot of non-database based front end (client side) logic.
If you do not have a programming language of choice (Grails is groovy based, which is based on Java), you could even look at Ruby on Rails which was the inspiration for Grails itself.
Alternately, you can add both grails and gwt in the mix by using this gwt grails plugin so that you have a powerful database integration, as well as a powerful front end developer. (I haven't used this though)
Sure, but you will need to create your own RPC service to get records from server to client and to deliver modified records back the server. But it isn't difficult at all.
Alternatively you could also use SmartGWT, which is an extension for GWT with more widgets, etc. They have data bound objects but in free version would would need to create your own data sources. If you decide to buy a license they seem to have database integration out of the box.
And additional note to consider with SmartGWT is that it has relatively big download size - about 3MB uncompressed and almost 1MB compressed (HTTP server should compresse it; it is in HTTP standard and it is transparent). So if it is going to be a service in public internet it might get quite long to load (often exceeding magic 8 seconds).
I had been working on GWT (Google Web Toolkit) for 1.5 years and learned that its a perfect platform for developing web application which uses backend database for its operation unless you have the right skill sets working on your project and a basic design which is developed according to the requirement of your project.
I am asking this question because, I see that Roo include SPRING MVC and GWT...but
- GWT (on its website) shows an example of a MVP pattern but I think it is not comparable with the SPRING MVC framework (indeed Spring MVC has more features. I have never used it...but I read that it helps a lot to do website, and easily lets have a REST architecture (how to do as easily a REST architecture with GWT and a MVP plateform ?)...
Can you help me to choose between these technologies (taking care that I want to develop my app on GAE, and I will also want Mobile phone version) ?
I suggest you not to use GWT with Roo, its GWT support extremely buggy at the moment. (Saying this as a big fan of Roo)
Also, REST is architectural style which embraces HTTP as an application protocol, not only as a transport protocol, meanwhile GWT is a framework, or rather a toolset for creating rich web application which use JavaScript as a frontend, one has basically nothing to do with the other. You can however use Spring MVC to build RESTful applications:
http://blog.springsource.com/2009/03/08/rest-in-spring-3-mvc/
http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.0.M3/spring-framework-reference/html/ch18s02.html
http://www.oudmaijer.com/2010/01/16/spring-3-0-rest-services-with-spring-mvc/
Looking for a recommendation of which framework/web server to go with on Linux. The idea is to build database backed RESTful web services.
I know Java, c++, c# (irrelevant I guess on linux) and C. Okay with developing in any of those.
Here is a table of frameworks that have varying degrees of support for REST and the languages they use.
You might want to check out RESTx. It is multi lingual: You can write code in Java, Python (server-side JavaScript coming soon). RESTx is specifically a platform for the creation of RESTful resources and web services. It is NOT a traditional application framework. DB backed web services are actually a specialty of RESTx: You identify the reusable components you want (in this case a JDBC capable DB access component), and then just configure it through the RESTful API or by filling out a small form in a browser. As a result, you get a new RESTful web service, which encapsulates the query you specified when creating the new resource.
I'm the lead developer on RESTx, so if you have any questions, please contact me or visit our forums.
If I were you I would go with Ruby 1.9.2 + Rails 3
they're fun and you get to learn something new
ubuntu specific install guide: http://web2linux.com/installing-rails-3-on-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx/
official RoR intro: http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html