Need advice about school project

I was asked to develop a middle-scale project for university this year - to be more specific, it is a traffic Report manager. I was told that i need to use SQL and Hibernate (type of application was not specified, can be web-application or not). It was also encouradge to use ontologies.

As i am already familiar with Grails, im thinking in developping that project in grails (which is run over hibernate so i think it matches the specifications).

• I will need some advices about my choice, eventually some problems i will have if i chose to do a web-application (grails) or a non-web java application. Im asking for advices because i d开发者_Go百科ont wanna regret later what i should have known certain things before starting the project this way.

Thanks in advanced,

I would double check with your professor before using Grails. Although Grails does use Hibernate if one of the requirements is to use Hibernate I would mark you down significantly for using Grails if I was the professor. Although Grails is a good framework it hides most of the details of using Hibernate. While this is normally a good thing if part of the class is to learn Hibernate hiding the details goes against the spirit of the class. Another option may be to use Spring Ru This is a tool that provides many of the advantages of Grails such as scaffolding and domain class generation. It uses Pure Java with the Hibernate framework though so hides fewer of the details of Hibernate. I can’t speak to advantages or disadvantages of creating a web verses desktop application since all my java application development has been web based.