Shall I use node.js in my application or not? Please suggest.

[madhav anand]

My Application is a J2ee based application with Spring/Hibernate and Oracle (db) in the backend. Also, for front-end it is using HTML5.

Kindly suggest should I use node.js in my application. If yes, then how java and node.js will interact with each other or do I need to re-write my existing code in java again in node.js?

Also, what performance improvements does node.js provide?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 20, 2014, at 3:02 AM, madhav anand wrote:

> My Application is a J2ee based application with Spring/Hibernate and Oracle (db) in the backend. Also, for front-end it is using HTML5.
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> Kindly suggest should I use node.js in my application.

Why do you think you should? What are you hoping to gain / what problems are you trying to solve by doing this?

> If yes, then how java and node.js will interact with each other or do I need to re-write my existing code in java again in node.js?

There are many ways for applications in different languages to communicate with one another. What does your java code do / what purpose does it serve? What will your node code do?

> Also, what performance improvements does node.js provide?

It's possible to write efficient and inefficient code in most languages. It's hard to say how using node in your application would affect performance without knowing anything about your application.

[madhav anand]

Why do you think you should? What are you hoping to gain / what problems are you trying to solve by doing this? 

  Currently in my application major processing is done at the client site using jquery and java script because of which the performance of page is effected. Therefore, with the power of node.js I want to use my existing UI team to do the coding in node.js and move computational based code on the server side (java based).

Also, I want to take advantage of Non-Blocking asynchronous approach of node.js.

There are many ways for applications in different languages to communicate with one another. What does your java code do / what purpose does it serve? What will your node code do? 

My application is analytical application which all kinds of logic on large amount of data and finally present it to the user in the form of charts, graphs etc. Java performs all the business logic of creating the desired data.