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JBoss Seam

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Author: JBoss

Latest version: 2.1
Added 2005-10-18Updated 2008-03-04

Application framework for Java EE 5 that unifies the component models of JSF and EJB 3.0, providing a streamlined programming model for web-based enterprise applications.
Seam introduces the notion of declarative application state management for POJO components. Seam components are stateful and contextual, with a well-defined container-managed lifecycle. This approach helps solve a whole class of bugs and performance problems that plague web applications with non-linear or multi-window navigation. Seam also makes business process management a first class construct, by integrating JBoss jBPM into this state management architecture.
Seam helps testing Java EE 5 applications in unit test frameworks by leveraging the JBoss Embeddable EJB3 container.
Seam is compatible with any application server that supports the EJB 3.0 public draft, and with any JSF 1.2 implementation.

Even if you're not ready to plunge into Java EE 5 and EJB 3.0 today, you can still take advantage of Seam's approach to state management by using Seam with Hibernate 3 and the JBoss Microcontainer.

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ztemplates

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Categories: MVC, Web frameworks

Author: Gerd Ziegler

Latest version: 0.9.8.6
Added 2008-01-24

Web framework based on Java 1.5

Features include:
- technology-agnostic URLs
- fully JSP, Velocity and AJAX compatible
- state-free
- invisible to the web-client
- uses conventions and annotations, almost no configuration: scans the classpath for annotated classes
- small, few classes are visible to the programmer, mostly annotations

The controller:
ztemplates is built around urls; urls can define url-variables; annotate an action-pojo with @ZMatch("yourUrlPattern"); url-variable values are assigned to pojos; urls can be nested (included) in each other with url-references; the nesting supports inheritance (polymorphism); the url defines a sequence of callbacks to the action-pojo; the callbacks contain the application logic and create the view (render-pojos)
The view:
define the view data in render-pojos; define the view in a template file (JSP, Velocity,...); style the view with css by placing a css fragment next to the pojo; annotate the render-pojo with @ZRenderer to link the pojo to the template and css; annotate the render-pojo-properties with @ZExpose to make them available to the template; include views by exposing other render-pojos as a property with @ZExpose(render=true)

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XX Framework

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Categories: MVC, Web frameworks

Latest version: 1.1
Added 2006-02-21Updated 2006-10-03

Configurable, XML-centric implementation of the MVC development paradigm that includes automation functionality, where HTML form fields can be mapped directly to database fields for display or update without additional coding.
The framework promotes a use case oriented development approach.

Features include:
- XML files are used for configuration and XSL is used for display
- Tools such as Hibernate and Castor are utilized
- Built around standards including J2EE, XHTML, XML, XSL, CSS
- Built-in configurable data caching and thread pooling
- CRUD tasks can be handled with little or no coding
- Uses a "portal-based" approach to page design, allowing compartmentalization of functionality
- Integrates with web services or native Java classes

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Struts

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Categories: MVC, Web frameworks

Author: The Apache Software Foundation

Latest version: 2.0.6
Added 2004-12-20Updated 2007-02-27

Open source framework for building Java web applications.
The framework is designed to streamline the full development cycle, from building, to deploying, to maintaining applications over time.

Features include:
- Build:
-- Jumpstart new projects with a bootstrap tutorial and template application or Maven archetype
-- Code against HTTP-independant framework interfaces
-- Code with stylesheet-driven form tags that provide their own markup
-- Ajax support
-- Inject dependencies into Actions using Spring
-- POJO forms: use any JavaBean to capture form input or put properties directly on an Action class
-- POJO Actions: use any class as an Action class
- Deploy
-- Add framework extensions by dropping in a JAR; No manual configuration required
-- Integrated profiling
-- Error reporting
- Maintain
-- Test Struts2 Actions directly, without resorting to mock HTTP objects
-- Customize the request handling per action, if desired
-- Built-in debugging tools
-- Customize tag markup by editing a FreeMarker template. JSP, FreeMarker and Velocity tags are fully supported.

Apache Struts 2 requires Servlet API 2.4, JSP API 2.0 and Java 5.
Apache Struts 2 was originally known as WebWork 2. After working independently for several years, the WebWork and Struts communities joined forces to create Struts 2.

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QueryCrypt

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Categories: Web frameworks

Author: Aveda Technology

Latest version: 1.0
Added 2005-10-05

Enables the encryption of URL parameters at the presentation layer of the web application. This secures your web application from a potential hacker manipulating the query request to gain access to sensitive data by altering parameters.
QueryCrypt works via a session listener, and API calls are provided to construct or deconstruct query parameters.

Features include:
- configurable with Servlet Init parameters on server startup.
- creates a unique set of private key(s) for each user-session and encrypt all user-session query data with that unique set of private key(s). One private key set per user-session.
- uses the user-session specific key set and the DESede (triple DES variant with three DES keys) to encrypt all query data.
- what the user sees in their URL is an unique MD5 message digest of the encrypted result. This further prevents hackers from guessing the user-session key set.
- ability to timeout query parameters to further enhance the security.
- customize the query name so that it masks the use of this product in your server architecture.
- Built in mechanism to prune stale or expired user-session data when session expires to maintain a small memory footprint.

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ICEfaces

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Categories: JSF - JSP - Tag libraries - AJAX, Web frameworks

Author: ICEsoft Technologies

Latest version: 1.8.2
Added 2006-07-24Updated 2009-10-05

Ajax application framework that enables J2EE application developers to create and deploy thin-client rich web applications in pure Java.

Features include:
- Direct-to-DOM (D2D): mechanism for rendering JSF pages directly into the browser.
- Ajax bridge: takes care of all aspects of communication between the server-side Framework and the client browser. It is mainly responsible for assembling DOM updates in the client browser, and propagating user interactions back to the server-side applications.
- Component suite: set of components including enhanced implementations of the standard JSF components as well as additional custom components.
- IDE integration for Eclipse, MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench, IBM Rational Application Developer, Sun NetBeans.
- Application servers supported: Tomcat, JBoss Application Server, WebLogic Server, Sun Java System Application Server, Oracle Application Server Container for J2EE (OC4J), WebSphere Application Server.
- Web browsers supported: Internet Explorer 6/7/8.x, Firefox 2/3.x, Opera 9.x, Safari 3.x, Chrome 1.x.

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WidgetServer

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Categories: Frameworks, Rich client UI - Swing, Web frameworks

Author: C1 SetCon

Latest version: 1.0 RC 4
Added 2005-06-30Updated 2006-06-07

WidgetServer (WiSer) is a Java/XML server-side GUI-framework that enables an application to run as either
- a monolithic application with a Swing GUI,
- a client/server application with a thin Swing client,
- or as an application with a rich Web client based on HTML and JavaScript
without any change and without loss of functionality.

XML markup helps to define an application's GUI fully separated from Java code. A unified widget-based, object-oriented programming interface for Web and Swing GUIs is offered to the developer to control and assemble the GUI, instead of struggling with HTML, JavaScript, and HTTP requests, or the internals of Swing. For Swing client/server applications, the framework handles client/server communication, including compression and security layers. The framework also supports a mixed deployment mode, which enables one server to serve Swing clients and Web clients at the same time.
A WYSIWYG GUI-builder is included.

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Spring

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Categories: AOP, Frameworks, Inversion of Control, MVC, Web frameworks

Author: SpringSource

Latest version: 3.0
Added 2005-03-10Updated 2009-09-25

Java/J2EE application framework.

Features include:
- JavaBeans-based configuration (XML)
- Inversion of Control (IoC) container
- AOP framework
- Declarative transaction management
- O/R mapping integration with Hibernate and JDBC support
- Web MVC framework
- Full Java 6 and Java EE 5 support (JDBC 4.0, JTA 1.1, JavaMail 1.4, JAX-WS 2.0)

Spring is modular, with a layered architecture, meaning that you can choose to use just about any part of it in isolation.
Spring is designed from the ground up to help you write code that's easy to test.

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Google Web Toolkit

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Categories: JSF - JSP - Tag libraries - AJAX, Web frameworks

Author: Google

Latest version: 2.1
Added 2006-05-17Updated 2010-11-04

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language.

With GWT, you write your front end in the Java programming language, and the GWT compiler converts your Java classes to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.

Features include:
- Dynamic, reusable UI components.
- Simple RPC: To communicate from your web application to your web server, you just need to define serializable Java classes for your request and response.
- Browser history management: Handles the browser's back button history.
- Real debugging: In production, your code is compiled to JavaScript, but at development time it runs in the Java virtual machine. That means when your code performs an action like handling a mouse event, you get full-featured Java debugging, with exceptions and the advanced debugging features of IDEs like Eclipse.
- Browser compatible: Supports IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, and Opera with no browser detection or special-casing within your code in most cases.
- Interoperability and fine-grained control: If GWT's class library doesn't meet your needs, you can mix handwritten JavaScript in your Java source code using our JavaScript Native Interface (JSNI).
- In-browser development mode
- Declarative user interface: using an XML format, the UiBinder feature allows the creation of user interfaces through declaration rather than code
- Resource bundling
- Code splitting
- DOM API

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eFace

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Categories: Rich client UI - Swing, Web frameworks

Author: Soyatec

Latest version: 1.2.3
Added 2008-10-13

XAML/WPF for Java
eFace provides an unified programming model for building both rich client and Web application.

Features include:
- Rapid and domain-oriented development
- Cross-environment applications
- Insulation from technology change
- XAML fundamentals: a markup language for declarative application programming
- Controls: a library of controls that support user interface development
- Data binding: elements can be bound to data from a variety of data sources in the form of Java objects and XML
- Internationalization and Localization

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Wicket

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Categories: MVC, Web frameworks

Latest version: 1.3.0 RC 2
Added 2005-03-17Updated 2007-12-30

Component-based Java web application framework designed with simplicity and separation of concerns in mind.
Wicket pages can be mocked up, previewed and later revised using standard WYSIWYG HTML design tools. Dynamic content processing and form handling is all handled in Java code using a component model backed by POJO data beans.

Features include:
- Pages and components in Wicket are real Java objects that support encapsulation, inheritance and events.
- Separation of concerns: Wicket does not mix markup with Java code and adds no special syntax to your markup files.
- Secure: URLs do not expose sensitive information and all component paths are session-relative. Explicit steps must be taken to share information between sessions.
- Transparent, scalable clustering support: all Wicket applications will work on a cluster automatically and without additional work.
- Typesafe sessions: Wicket eliminates the need to manage HttpSession attributes by hand.
- Factory customizable: Wicket is extensible. Most operations are customizable through factories or factory methods.
- Native, cross-platform AJAX support

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Expresso

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Categories: Web frameworks

Author: JCorporate

Latest version: 5.6
Added 2005-07-22

Open standards-based J2EE architectural framework that allows the developer to concentrate on application logic.
Expresso is a library of extensible Java Server application framework components for creating database-driven Web applications based on open standards. Expresso integrates with Apache Jakarta Struts, which emphasizes presentation and application configuration, and bringing a tag library to Expresso. Expresso adds capabilities for security, object-relational mapping, background job handling and scheduling, self-tests, logging integration, automated table manipulation, database connection pooling, email connectivity, event notification, error handling, caching, internationalization, XML automation, testing, registration objects, configuration management, workflow, automatic database maintenance and JSP tag library, etc.

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Cocoon

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Categories: MVC, Web frameworks

Author: Apache Jakarta

Latest version: 2.1
Added 2005-01-31

Apache Cocoon is a web development framework built around the concepts of separation of concerns and component-based web development.

Cocoon implements these concepts around the notion of 'component pipelines', each component on the pipeline specializing on a particular operation. This makes it possible to use a Lego(tm)-like approach in building web solutions, hooking together components into pipelines without any required programming.

Cocoon is "web glue for your web application development needs". It is a glue that keeps concerns separate and allows parallel evolution of all aspects of a web application, improving development pace and reducing the chance of conflicts.

Cocoon has been designed to coexist and interoperate side-by-side with your existing J2EE solutions or to give them new functionality without requiring any change in the existing infrastructure.

Cocoon interacts with many data sources, including filesystems, RDBMS, LDAP, native XML databases, SAP systems and network-based data sources. It adapts content delivery to the capabilities of different devices like HTML, WML, PDF, SVG, and RTF, to name just a few. You can run Cocoon as a Servlet as well as through a powerful, commandline interface. The deliberate design of its abstract environment gives you the freedom to extend its functionality to meet your special needs in a modular fashion.

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[fleXive]

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Author: UCS

Latest version: 3.0 Community Preview
Added 2008-03-25

Java EE 5 open-source (GPL) framework for the development of web applications.
[fleXive] aims to speed up development by easing tedious and repetitive programming tasks and helping to keep the application flexible during the development-cycle and in production.

[fleXive] concentrates on enterprise-scale content modeling, storage and retrieval, and includes JSF support for displaying and manipulating these contents in web applications. The runtime environment can be included in existing Java EE applications.

Features include:
- EJB-based persistence engine with security and versioning
- SQL-like query language
- JSF-based web administration
- Web development JSF toolkit with reusable JSF components for integration into existing applications
- Based on Java 6, EJB 3, JSF, MySQL

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RIFE

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Latest version: 1.5
Added 2005-10-24Updated 2006-08-02

Open-source web application framework with tools and APIs to implement most common web features.
RIFE's toolkits can be used by themselves or together. RIFE ensures that every declaration and definition is handled in one place in the code.
RIFE's design blends the request-based and component-based approaches into a consistent component object model. Through a centralized site structure, an application can be split up into reusable binary modules that can be integrated into other projects.

Features include: Web application engine; Integrated web continuations; IoC support; Out of container testing; Content management framework; Bidirectional multi-format template engine; Template content transformation; Centralized meta-data facility; Authentication framework; JDBC abstraction layer; Database query builders; Persistence layer; Configuration framework; Central application life-cycle management; Cron-like scheduler; Asynchronous mail queue; Content syndication framework; Resource abstraction; Web services; JNDI support.

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Servoy

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Categories: RAD - Dev automation, Rich client UI - Swing, Web frameworks

Author: Servoy

Latest version: 4.0
Added 2008-08-02

Cross-platform application development and deployment environment.
Servoy enables you to build applications that can be deployed to both the desktop and over the internet, with one code base.

Features include:
- Eclipse plug-in
- GUI designer
- event-driven
- scriptable through JavaScript

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zen Platform

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Categories: Modeling - Architecture - MDA - UML, Web frameworks

Author: zeos informatics

Latest version: 2.0.4
Added 2005-04-05

Model-driven Java development environment for J2SE/J2EE.
The zen Platform allows to develop Java applications by modelling them through visual methods (RAD) without the need for technical expertise.
The development is integrated as a plug-in into Eclipse.

Features include:
- Graphical model driven development and execution
- Model-Test-Review development cycle, no code generation, no build (for
model changes), no deploy needed
- Application updates during runtime without server start/stop cycle
- Full access to all J2EE features, even in servlet-only deployments
- Automated business rules support
- Integrated localization
- Integrated output formats are html, pdf, wap (wml), xml and text. They can be extended
- Platform can be extended in many degrees

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