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by rjbwork 4651 days ago
I much prefer working in .NET MVC4 than I did trying the same pattern in Java with JSP/Servlet/Spring. Things seem to just work.

As for 1, I haven't really had to write tests around these wrappers yet.

I can't really comment on 2 as we don't use but a couple of pretty simple ones that ARE easily testable.

I'm also really not sure what you mean with 3. If by "hint" you mean use @ as your denotation for C# code, then yeah, I guess you do. I also don't see how it's much different from Rails templates, and in fact I think the syntax is far more readable than rails templates (disclosure: I've not used Rails extensively or professionally) and a marked improvement over JSP/ASP Classic.

4. We've got >20k users who access the site multiple times a day and we've not seen anything indicating thread corruption. Not saying you're wrong, but I'm really not entirely sure what you're talking about, perhaps you could elaborate?

5. I can't really comment on this one either, but I can say for a fact that we currently have users downloading excel files over SSL in IE8 and greater.
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edwinnathaniel 4651 days ago
Maybe you should update your Java skill? Servlet/JSP vs MVC4? Try SpringMVC and JAX-RS.

I've ben going back and forth between Java and C# in the not-so-distant past and I felt that C# ecosystem is just too limited.

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rjbwork 4651 days ago
I mentioned Spring. It's been a couple of years, but doesn't Spring's MVC pattern use JSP for the view templates?
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edwinnathaniel 4651 days ago
JSP is just a tiny part of the whole stack no? You're free to develop single-page app using whatever your choice of JS frameworks.

I believe any Spring view plumbering can process several java-based templating languages (Velocity, JSP, JSF, etc).

You did mentioned Spring but in the same breadth with Servlet+JSP which makes me wonder if you're just using Spring-core and not the more modern stuff.

Keep in mind that there's now "flow" based solution in .NET world. "Flow", while it is not the best choice for the whole presentation stack, has it values for developing wizard-like/shopping cart section of your app.

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