Hi, all. If/when anyone has any time, I was hoping to get a few quick opinions. (and I do mean be brief; I don't want anyone wasting time on this.)
*** Could Camel + Spring Boot *alone* be used to implement the Java portion of *** a simple backend for a low-throughput, non-realtime system that doesn't need to scale? Backstory: I was thinking about the web site for my sons' little league (I didn't create it), and what I might do if I were to redo it totally from scratch without using Wordpress, etc. This quickly morphed (away from baseball and) into what it would take to implement what basically amounts to a simple inventory tracking system of sorts. And the picture I had in mind is something like. Imagine you are an online business with: - 100 customers or offices (whatever - call them "sites") - Each "site" is going to place at most, on average, 1 order a day where an "order" might be to ship goods to another site, request goods from another site, or order goods from a vendor (whatever - the details of the "order" don't matter) - Each site now needs to be able to track the progress of its order (where its good are) Basically, something like a poor man's Amazon or USPS/UPS/FedEx tracking system. Again, the system doesn't need to scale because there will never be more than 100-200 sites. Sites will spend the majority of their time inactive; i.e. not placing orders. Each order is a simple movement of goods (shipping or procuring/receiving). There are no real time demands to know exactly where goods are. (A daily update would suffice.) Since the concurrency needs seem to be negligible, I don't see a need for a JBoss app server, or a distributed server farm, etc. I feel like Camel will already handle whatever concurrency issues that may arise, and its ability to seamlessly integrate with so many others means alot of the work is already done for me. What are your thoughts on trying to implement the backend of this simple inventory system with a pretty simple Spring Boot + Camel + RDMS application, hosted on a beefy server and not running in an app server or Docker? Thanks. Ron
