title: What do you use for web development and why you think it rocks?
body: <p>Here's my new project: an open canvas, right in front of me. In a few days, I will start to code a big web application. It will start small, with few modules, only myself as developer and engineer, but hopefully it will grow and grow.</p>
  
  <p>Even though I am an active Java Developer, It's been a while since I last created a Web Application from scratch. At the time, Struts and J2EE was the way to go, but I see a lot of new frameworks, new libraries raising everyday. </p>
  
  <p>What I ask here is for your advice: what do you currently use for web development, why do you think it's relevant and if you would choose the same tools if you were starting on a new project. Everything counts: from tips on the UI to the backend. Common gotchas, patterns, everything you can think may be relevant.</p>
  
  <p>I am a Java developer and, I am naturally inclined to do everything using Java-related technologies (J2SE, J2EE, Groovy, Grails, JRuby, Jython, JWhatever, and so on...), but please be welcome to post whatever you use, being related to Java or not.</p>
  
  <p>My goal here is to build a bucket of what people are doing and why they are doing to help me evaluate which way should I go, and which I shouldn't - and why. After all, it's not everyday that you have such freedom to decide.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance!</p>