I\'d like to make a simple-ish website that is essentially a small game. Key str

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I'd like to make a simple-ish website that is essentially a small game. Key strokes are to be processed and sent to a server (already acquired and should support SQL and JSP, I believe) which then translate to a location and written to the DB.

SQL queries are to be used to retrieve these locations and written to other clients connected to the website. Their page is to be updated with these locations.

I have working knowledge of Java, jQuery/Ajax, SQL and JavaScript but I'm unfamiliar with JSP and how everything hooks up. I'm aware of the MVC paradigm as well. For my little game idea, would these technologies work? Am I over thinking this and can make it much easier to implement? What might be a good tutorial or example to study?

Explanation / Answer

You can certainly do all this in Java/JSP, but personally it sounds like overkill. I would recommend using the LAMP stack instead (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). You should be able to get this working much quicker using PHP.

If you are going to stick with Java/JSP, then I highly recommend making use of Spring MVC and JSTL tags to cut down on how much custom code you need to write just to wire everything together.

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