Hello all,

Sorry for the vague title, but I am trying to start a new web application that is basically going be a product viewer and cloud based solution for companies.  I am trying to figure out what exactly I should be using to complete this.

I am looking to be using SVG for images/boxes as it's supported on all devices.  I am going back and forth on what I should be using for this, and I know this is a Java forum so I might only be getting half of the answer

I found a JS library that works well with SVG as well as graphing capabilities and such, the library is called D3.

I also found a Java framework called Apache Baltik, but that is 6 years old so I feel it's unsupported.

It seems I could use anything on the client, but my issue is the backend.  Should I use Node.js, or would a Java backend be better?

I keep trying to find articles on what would be better, but keep finding these awfully skewed/biased articles from Dzone saying JEE is dead, but the comments say otherwise.

I am not new to Java, but I would be new to Server side Java, as well as Node.js in general.

There seems to be so many choices I don't know what would be good.....  I've also seen something called Vert.x, so that's another thing to consider.

If anyone has any advice to make this journey a little easier I would appreciate it greatly.