Alain Hufkens {Rich Interactive Applications Developer}

29Aug/081

footballfan.be

I have been working on a social networking platform for soccer fans and players for the last month. We started more or less a month ago building the platform from scratch. We developed the site in Java with a team of very good developers. By using existing frameworks like Hibernate and Spring we were able to deliver on time (which was actually almost impossible).

The new part for me was working with Spring MVC, which meant working a lot in the HTML front-end. With Spring MVC you can almost have data binding like in Flex, but off course keeping in mind that we still are working in a HTTP context. Another cool thing was adding the UrlRewriteFilter so that we can have clean urls like http://www.footballfan.be/users/alain instead of something like http://www.footballfan.be/user.do?username=alain. There are also some cool AJAX features in there. So in the end it was fun developing again in Java, but now I am also eager to go back to Flex or "who knows" a Silverlight project.

So here you go footballfan.be has gone live yesterday and has been launched as part of the "We Believe" campaign. The site is only available in Dutch and French.

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Mark
November 8th, 2008 - 14:25

now you are getting some help for that HTML frontend part

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