Heeelp! - wich platform for developing a web based "business-type" game

[manuel boucheri]

Hello everybody,

I need to develop a multi-user web based business-type of game for my master thesis.
It´s a kind of game which rarely discussed in forums.

I´ve never programmed java web based apps, only the Swing-desktop type.

I´ve considered JSF but, after surfing the web I was discouraged, considering the considerable amount of bad reviews about JSF´s steep learning curve.

The game will have the following charaCteristics:

- iT´S A BUSINESS TYPE OF GAME - SIMULATING THE MANAGEMENT OF A "UNIVERSITY´S DEPARTMENT"

- Lots of forms form wich the players submit their answers and statistical graphics.

- The players must comunicate in a descentralized - real time - manner - but i need to "catch" their answers, so every communication and playing, must pass must be recorded through a server.

- 5-7 Players simulateously.

- Must be in Java.

- The players will play the game through their browsers.

- I will need - data mining and statistical processing abilities.

- Heavily database driven.

I would greatly apreciate someone´s kind help, since this is a rather unusual application and i´m a total "virgin" on Web development. (i´m a Mathematics major)


Many Thanks,

Manuel Boucherie.

[manuel boucheri]

Anyway, in another forum someone kindly told me that AJAX is the solution.

I didn´t know about AJAX, because I was initially too focused on using JSF.

After done some investigation on-line, now i see that Ajax is going my way, and that a can even develop hypbrid AJAX - APPLET applications.

After reading many forums, it seems that the "ZK open source Ajax framework." is the best around this days.

What do you folks think ?

Manuel Boucherie.