Is J2EE environment more scalable and suitable for large web application than ASP .NET?
We are currently working for a company that holds a huge website with more or less 500000 unique visitors per day, and they want to adapt their web application and to scale it well.
My team is composed by 3 JAVA/ASP .NET Senior Software Engineers and two web designers.
During a brainstorm we decided that we were going to use JAVA (J2EE environment) because of our proficiency with that language. My question is that: in your experience is Java more suitable to develop more scalable web applications?
We've never had so much traffic on a website and we didn't want to rewrite all the codebase but the company wants it to be COMPLETELY rewrited.
Is J2EE environment more scalable and suitable for large web application than ASP .NET?
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We are currently working for a company that holds a huge website with more or less 500000 unique visitors per day, and they want to adapt their web application and to scale it well.
My team is composed by 3 JAVA/ASP .NET Senior Software Engineers and two web designers.
During a brainstorm we decided that we were going to use JAVA (J2EE environment) because of our proficiency with that language. My question is that: in your experience is Java more suitable to develop more scalable web applications?
We've never had so much traffic on a website and we didn't want to rewrite all the codebase but the company wants it to be COMPLETELY rewrited.