[Eridrus]

The blog post mentioned "modern java frameworks", can you specify which ones you're using?

[champion]

The post mentions a few: Dropwizard for RESTful APIs (http://www.dropwizard.io which includes a bunch of good libraries), Guava, Guice, Hysterix, etc. We use Kafka for stream processing, Hadoop for batch processing.

[scopendo]

Does that mean that you use JDBI for DB access?

[bbeaudreault]

SQL is just one type of DB language we use, but yes we use JDBI with some extensions we've built (such as https://github.com/HubSpot/Rosetta and other non-opensource) for our SQL database of choice, MySQL.

But we also use a number of other databases with native java clients, such as HBase and ElasticSearch.

[rpgmaker]

Is there a guide to modern java frameworks and their use? I left java a while back when "EE" was full of shit.

[kbouck]

Parallel Universe made a comprehensive 3-part blog post to modern Java. They cover language features like lambdas, as well as notable libraries for build, deployment, monitoring, and web development.

http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2014/05/01/modern-java/

[champion]

This is a good place to start: https://github.com/cxxr/better-java

[karmapolice]

So, is the idea to avoid ORM, JSF, JavaBeans, CDI Beans and all JavaEE in general? How is web application development done? I guess the back-end is made in Java with an API, and another language is used for the front-end.

[chipgap98]

Yeah we're using javascript with react/flux on the front end