对每个第一个HttpRequest使用HTMLUnit是一个坏主意吗？

Question

I have a ajax frontend for my java backend, and to make things work with the crawls and HTML5 pushState I going to use HtmlUnit to process the javascript in every first request.

I can make a workaround with a Filter to not use HtmlUnit trying to reduce the server load.

Regardless of browser compatibility, which is best for the server?

Answer 1

After a lot of research and test I can tell that process heavy javascript applications on server side ins't I good idea, HtmlUnit is the best tool around and it doesn't do the job very well, so if your requirements are to support clients that doesn't support javascript, so go for PHP or some other server side script language or maybe JSF.

I my case, I have a Back-end in JAX-RS and I manage to support HTML5 pushState without process the javascript on server-side and assume that the client process javascript, HtmlUnit still in use for enable crawlability.