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Do you use a framework for routing and handling HTTP requests, or just servlets? What about accessing the database, if any? I assume you're not using Java EE.

EDIT: For iOS, http://j2objc.org/ can help you share code between platforms, but you'll still do the UI and other platform-specific things in ObjC.

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I use GWT-RPC because it is easy. For other clients I wanted to try Thrift. I like what Evernote did: https://blog.evernote.com/tech/2011/05/26/evernote-and-thrif...

Thanks for the j2objc tip! I will definitely be looking into that. I thought Thrift was as far as I could reach into iOS without Objective-C.

I haven't used J2EE. My experience with Django years ago made me framework adverse. I will be posting a sample app in a month or two that shows what I mean.

If you're looking for a small and simple HTTP framework in Java, I've been working on one that I think is really nice (you might think the exact opposite): https://github.com/dkuntz2/java-httpserver

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