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QueryCrypt

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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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Turbine

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Author: Apache Jakarta

Latest version: 2.4
Added 2005-01-27

Turbine is a servlet based framework that allows experienced Java developers to build web applications. Turbine allows you to use personalize the web sites and to use user logins to restrict access to parts of your application.

Turbine is a choice for developing applications that make use of a service-oriented architecture. Some of the functionality provided with Turbine includes a security management system, a scheduling service, XML-defined form validation server, and an XML-RPC service for web services. It is a task to create new services particular to your application.

The Turbine core is free of any dependency on a presentation layer technology. Both JavaServer Pages (JSP) and Velocity are supported inside Turbine. For developers already familiar with JSP, or have existing JSP tag libraries, Turbine offers support for the Sun standard.

Turbine is developed in an open, participatory environment and released under the Apache Software License.

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Tapestry

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Author: The Apache Software Foundation

Latest version: 5.0.1 Preview
Added 2005-03-11Updated 2007-02-08

Framework for creating web applications in Java that reconceptualizes web application development in terms of objects, methods and properties instead of URLs and query parameters.

Tapestry is an alternative to scripting environments such as JSP (JavaServer Pages) or Velocity. Tapestry goes further, providing a framework for creating dynamic applications with minimal amounts of coding.
Tapestry's approach, using a component object model similar to a traditional GUI, provides the following benefits:
- Everything in Tapestry is a reusable component within and between projects.
- Framework does all the URL building and message dispatching, transparently.
- Internationalization/Localization: framework selects localized version of text, templates and images.
- Robust applications: Less code is less bugs; Built-in exception reporting; Line precise error reporting.
- Graphic designers and Java developers can work together without having to know each other's jobs.

Tapestry exploits the dynamic nature of the Java language, leveraging the JavaBeans API, as well as servlets and other J2EE technology.

Tapestry components are a combination of a specification file (in XML), an HTML template and a Java class (extending a framework class, with additions). Tapestry components are combined together to form larger components or complete Tapestry pages.

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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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AppFuse

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Author: Matt Raible

Latest version: 2.0 M3
Added 2005-05-24Updated 2007-02-08

Application for "kickstarting" webapp development.

Download, extract and execute "ant new" to be up and running with a Struts+Spring+Hibernate application running on Tomcat/MySQL. AppFuse uses Ant, XDoclet, Spring, Hibernate (or iBATIS), JUnit, jMock, StrutsTestCase, Canoo's WebTest, Struts Menu, Display Tag Library, OSCache, JSTL and Struts (Spring MVC, WebWork, Tapestry and JSF are also options).

Features include:
- Cross-platform, implemented using Java technology.
- Should run on all J2EE 1.3+ compatible application servers that support J2SE 1.4.
- Authentication (using Acegi Security), Remember Me, Self Registration, Password Hint, GZip Compression.
- Support for SSL throughout, including login only.
- internationalization, with built-in translations for Dutch, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Chinese.
- Label Tag Library for displaying validation errors next to fields.
- Unit testing environment using DBUnit, JUnit, jMock and Canoo's WebTest.
- Configuration and development using XDoclet, Spring and AppGen.

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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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WEB4J

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Author: Hirondelle Systems

Web application framework.

Features include:
- let's you build a browser front-end to a relational database
- lets you put SQL in plain .sql text files
- lets you implement forms with plain old HTML
- allows package-by-feature, where closely related items are placed in the same directory
- has no reliance on javascript
- has no custom annotations
- has no custom .xml files (only web.xml is used)
- has no object-relational mapping
- can be used with any relational database that has a JDBC driver
- lets your Model Objects be immutable
- lets your Model Objects be responsible for their own validation
- lets your Model Objects avoid the Java Beans anti-pattern
- uses convention over configuration
- lets your apps assist in their own translation
- lets you place translations in the database

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JTri

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

Latest version: 0.69
Added 2006-04-17

JTri consists in to parts:
- The Java.tri Tools: set of plugins for Eclipse to import UML models, design applications in high level extensible specification and generate code and even the entire application. By using velocity templates and the Jmerge technology, it can generate code without erasing custom developments.
- The Java.tri Framework: set of classes built around Struts and Hibernate to perform common tasks in web applications such as iterating on pages of data, displaying list of values to pick values from, list boxes that read from persistent data, master detail coordination, filter windows to perform search, and other features.

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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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OpenXava

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Author: Gestión 400

Latest version: 3.0
Added 2005-03-14Updated 2008-03-12

Framework for developing Java EE applications.
OpenXava allows you to define applications with POJOs, JPA and Java 5 annotations. It generates JSR-168 portlet applications.

Features include:
- Based on the concept of business component
- Although the User Interface is automatically generated (on fly) a front-end arrangement is possible
- Adapted to work with legacy database schemas
- Supports any application server (Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere, etc)
- Supports JSR-168: All OpenXava modules are standard portlets too
- Persistence engine: EJB3 JPA, Hibernate or EJB2 CMP
- Tested with portals such as JetSpeed 2, WebSphere Portal, Liferay and Stringbeans
- Integration of reports made with JasperReports
- Licensed under LGPL. You can develop comercial application using OpenXava.
- All labels and messages are in English, Spanish, German, Polish, Indonesian, French and Catalan

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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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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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SweetDEV Framework

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Author: Ideo Technologies

Latest version: 2.12
Added 2005-07-01

J2EE technical framework for Web application development.

Features include:
- set of web user interface controls and components
- develop your applications in HTML
- create filter management components by using copy/paste
- standardise the display of your application’s errors
- manage exporting tables to Excel
- manage multilingual interfaces
- integrate your graphic chart into all your applications without having to redefine it each time
- implement cache management technologies
- manage your configurations in XML files or databases and download them automatically
- use your stored procedures
- manage breaks in protocol, in architectures where security is especially important
- facilitate the recovery of parameters from different sources (flat files, databases, JNDI trees, Web repositories, ...)
- implement policies for managing access permissions
- adapt the behaviour of interfaces depending on the utilisation contexts (browsing, updating).

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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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Jena

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Categories: Math - Logic - AI - Rules - Science, Web frameworks

Latest version: 2.2
Added 2005-08-26

Jena is a Java framework for building Semantic Web applications. It provides a programmatic environment for RDF, RDFS and OWL, including a rule-based inference engine. Jena is open source and grown out of work with the HP Labs Semantic Web Programme.

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Velosurf

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Categories: Page templating, Web frameworks

Latest version: 2.0
Added 2006-11-13

Database mapping layer library for the Apache Velocity template engine.
Velosurf provides automatic database mapping of tables and relationships without any code generation. It is a lightweight placeholder to heavy persistence systems. In the context of a Velocity Tools Webapp, it also provides tools for authentication, localization and forms data validation.

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