recommendations for rich scalable internet application
- by Wouter Roux
I am planning to develop a web application that must perform the following actions:
User authentication
allow authenticated user to download data from USB device (roughly 5 meg data)
upload the data from the USB device to processing server
process the data and display the results to the user
further requirements/restrictions:
the USB driver supports windows (2000, XP, Vista, 7)
the application must support IE, Firefox and Chrome
the USB driver must be installed when pointing to the web application the first time
the USB driver exposes functionality through exported functions in dll
scalability and eye candy is important
server details: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64, IIS 7.0, SQL server 2008
With the limited details specified:
What technology would you recommend? (eg silverlight/asp.net mvc/wcf).
What practices/patterns/3rd party controls would you recommend?