I assume using Spring MVC for the front end. I think that you would be fine. Someone else will probably chime in from the project and confirm.
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 7:29 AM Ron Cecchini <roncecch...@comcast.net> wrote: > 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 > -- Sincerely, Michael Joyner
