Open Source Java Web Development Frameworks

ZK is an open-source Java framework for building modern web and mobile applications. It enables developers to create rich, interactive UIs using only Java — no JavaScript required. With 200+ Ajax-powered components, event-driven architecture, and support for popular technologies like Spring, Java EE, and JSP/JSF, ZK makes it simple to deliver powerful and user-friendly web applications.

Apache Wicket is a component based Java web application framework. It has found a new home at Apache: http://wicket.apache.org Please visit us there to discover new releases, find support and learn more about Apache Wicket.

Stripes is a Java web framework with the goal of making Servlet/JSP based web development in Java as easy, intuitive and straight-forward as possible. Stripes has always been guided by the following principles: * Convention over configuration (CoC) * Extremely lightweight with very few external dependencies. * Quick, iterative code/deploy/test experience for developers. * Application stack agnostic. Developers can integrate Stripes into their existing application stacks. * Do a few things and do them extremely well. For the last 10 years, Stripes has been used as the basis of applications of all types worldwide. We encourage you to download Stripes, browse the documentation, try the samples, and see why Stripes is considered among the best, lightweight Java web frameworks. See http://www.stripesframework.org/ for more information. Latest Release v1.6 : https://github.com/StripesFramework/stripes/releases

VIVO is a semantic web project built on the Jena semantic web framework, and is an application to facilitate the discovery of researchers and collaborators across the country and internationally.

The JWebSwing is a web framework designed for ease of use, and as simplistic as possible in design. Design your applications the same way you would design a Swing application! Annotate your CSS according to Java Objects, Fields, or even in-line. Utilizing the best open source available on the web, This framework combines the best components available freely on the web into a single, easy-to-use, and extremely powerful framework which is lightweight, fast, and easily maintainable. Focusing on a core of JQuery and Atmosphere Push - You can ensure that your application will run on any device. With AJAX at the center, and a "Render-On-Load" servlet that can start loading from any element in the tree, you can always ensure that you can provide a secure, cross-browser web application. By Default, Server-Side-Only development is more secure than any other method out there. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKmp3cltVruaBZtGU5VH_Lg

A Java WEB application framework featuring: Flows (ie. components designed as finite state-machines usable as subflows, modal dialogs and components), a rendering engine able to refresh only changed parts of a web page via Ajax, and much much more ...

Click Framework is an easy to learn and use J2EE web application framework. Click is designed for web app development by commercial Java teams. With Click developers should be able get up and running within a day.

The EchoPoint project provides a rich collection of web components which seamlessly integrate with the Echo Web Framework. EchoPoint, combined with the Echo Web Framework, provides the one of the simplest and richest frameworks for Web application devel

A collection of plugins, extensions and integrations for the Stripes web framework. Stripes Stuff has moved to https://github.com/StripesFramework/stripes-stuff

JET - Java Enterprise Turbine is a web framework which offers an easy to use web development environment. The focus is on building and reusing forms instead of whole pages like JSP. JET uses "Freemarker templates" to generate html pages.

Joindesk is a J2EE Web application framework using Ext,Velocity and Spring.

Next is a Java Web framework, based on Spring and Hibernate, it aims the fast development and high productivity. It was born from the older brother Neo Framework. Features several utilities that makes web development easier.

java web framework - annotations - pojo - NO XML - state-free - clean, technology agnostic urls - REST - invisible to the web-client - JSP, Velocity, FreeMarker (others pluggable) - annotations for JavaScript/CSS dependencies - create reusable compon

A Java web framework, which provides an easy and effective way to separate the HTML pages and the associated Java code without using any custom document tags, source code outside class files, or custom XML metadata files. Unlimitedly extensible.

Fast Lightweight JAVA-based Web-Application Framework

The Struts/SourceForge site hosts sample applications and related components based on the Apache Struts Web application framework. Disclaimer: This site is not affiliated with the Apache Software Foundation.

A simplified forum application based on full and professional Java EE technology: struts+spring+ibatis (ssb) / hibernate (ssh). Which be implemented as the prototype of web forum / BBS, and provided for all the functionalities. Note: the WAR file can be directly imported from Eclipse or other Java EE IDEs and it is also including all the source code inside. IMPORTANT: while launching the app in the server, please re-configure the fields in the files of log4j.properties + lucene_cfg.properties + forum_cfg.properties. For the details, please read the file of 'readme,txt'. All my dear friends who download this project, if you are interested on my project, you can send email to contact with me at jitao.liu82@gmail.com or in the Discussion give the feedback. I have other good stuffs to share more than you can image!!!

Facets is a web application framework that leverages a simple MVC architecture for the server side and a feature-packed Javascript component model for the client. The two pieces are designed to be seemlessly integrated for very dynamic AJAX-style apps.

Loom is an open source Java web framework that uses annotations to validate user input.

1) A component for the Apache Tapestry web framework embedding JSCookMenu. JavaScript menues and navigation side-bars with pop-up sub menues are rendered. Java and XML models 2) A WYSIWYG tool is provided for theme-creation

JavAjax is now at 1.4 beta version, for downloads and documentation please visit http://www.javajax.org

Frame2 is an alternative to using Struts for web application development. Frame2 also supports web services in an MVC context.

In pursuit of developing a "simple to use" yet very powerful web application framework in the J2EE environment that will appeal to both the Java community and Fusebox architects and coders from other platforms.

Java Web Application Framework. Write good-looking, styled, hacker-proof, well-behaving, customizable, content-rich Java web applications easy in a minimum time using designers & framework services.

A tiny yet powerful web framework which supports web application. It's open and easily extended to support Mobile, Web2.0, Native application.