Server-generated HTML or browser-generated HTML? Spring Data REST makes a good HATEOAS JSON REST api for you, somewhat automatically. Spring Data JPA alleviat

Server-generated HTML or browser-generated HTML? Spring Data REST makes a good HATEOAS JSON REST api for you, somewhat automatically. Spring Data JPA alleviates the drudge of writing your DAO layer. Spring 4.2 does websockets and server-sent events nicely. PostgreSQL 9.5 (out soon). Regular JDBC driver for regular stuff, but try the pgjdbc-ng driver to listen to NOTIFYs.