Are applets suitable for a multi-player business-type game?

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.

- SOMEONE TOLD ME THAT APPLETS ARE BETTER SUITED FOR THIS TASK

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.

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I have adjusted your topic title for you.

You could use applets for the user interface of the game. But you said the database part of the game is very important, so I would put the parts of the application which work with the database on the server. And having made that decision, I would then probably not bother to write an applet to interface with the server. Unless there was some reason to have complex processing at the client side, I would just write a regular web application with an HTML interface.

Don't let your opinion of JSF deter you from learning about web applications. JSF isn't the only way to write a web app; that would be like me saying "I heard that Norway is expensive so I don't want to go to Europe".