Hi guys,
Thanks a million for your helpful replies. I suppose I get your points and seem to me you all talk along same principle line but focus may be on different segments. So all suggestions and ideas appear coherent to me. Initial support requirement should be very basic, e.g. not including video, gift shop, search or even no blog. The full support may come into being in 2 years time. This is what I am planning to do (tomcat, mySQL have been setup already), will start from one may show in the very beginning, while always keeping an open mind. 1. Design the general architecture of the site (look/feel, page structure, work flow, assets) 1. Study some stuff http://commons.apache.org/ http://java.sun.com/blueprints/patterns/catalog.html dwr https://dwr.dev.java.net/ www.dojotoolkit.org http://extjs.com/ relevant J2EE API documentation bundle (http://lucene.apache.org/) 1. Coding will start from static pages first then into dynamic and multimedia ones. 1. Looking for readily available components/packages which satisfy my requirements, but maybe not a grand platform/framework!? (Still not 100/% sure since in general, with an appropriate framework, it may have packaged all those components/packages I need – not sure if such a framework/platform does exist though!) Still a very long way to go. Any guidance would be most appreciated! Best regards to all of you. Mark
