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.

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.

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

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

jZeno is a full-stack java web application framework that offers the ability to develop rich web applications. The main architectural goal of jZeno is to allow people to create web applications using pure java development as much as possible.

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

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.

WARFARE is a lightweight, extensible Web Application Framework to enable Construction and maintenace of web based applications without writing any Java code. A Web based interface allows for real time maintenance and tweaks to the system.

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

Presenting XML is a Java web application framework for presenting HTML, PDF, WML etc. in a device independent manner. The framework supports a flow of content (XML files, flat files, SQL, dynamic XML) through SAX pipelines and XSLT transforms to a device

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!!!

Helma is a web application framework. It offers support for various scripting engines, but still the Rhino JS scripting engine plugin is the only bundled plugin. This project offers a PHP plugin, allowing PHP developers to make use of the Helma web appli

ABCL-web is a web-framework using Armed Bear Common Lisp as a Java Servlet

JavaServer Faces (JSF) v.2.2.x web-framework showcase. Portable web-application for Java WEB-developers, who use Java Server Faces. Made for convenience - if Internet access suddenly down ). See please excellent projects: https://github.com/liferay/liferay-faces-showcase/ and https://github.com/heroku/webapp-runner/ , also https://mvnrepository.com/search?q=webapp-runner and https://mvnrepository.com/search?q=com.liferay.faces.demo .

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

2step is a development framework written in Java for developing complete web applications (including web services). As a servlet framework features access control, logging, I18N, database access, deploy, XML/XSL, etc, and uses Jetty, FOP and jCharts.

The AXEL framework extends XML and HTML, adding "xml actions" that perform tasks during page processing. Goto http://xmlactions.org for a full description of how it works. Actions can be as simple as inserting a page, to as complex as building query results from external data sources. The Axel Framework project consists of different components: * axel-actions (core framework) * axel-mapping (a mapping tool built on axel-actions) * axel-pager (a web page builder built on axel-actions) * axel-db (database actions for inserting, querying, updating) * axel-jar (builds a delivery jar file) * axel-web (builds a war file as a base for a web site that uses AXEL) Visit http://xmlactions.org for installation and setup instructions. Google+ https://plus.google.com/109415438738189235346 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AxelFramework

Action-driven component-oriented web application framework based on Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. Goals: minimum complexity & dependency on the framework API, maximum power, reliability and conformance to common standards.

Angkor is an easy-to-use component model for producing interactive and reusable J2EE web systems using object oriented methodologies. It is built on a flexible pipeline architecture and very easy to integrate with other technologies.

Anokha is a MVC web framework based on Java/J2EE technology that simplify the enterprise application development by providing a set of presentation and business tier components being J2EE-API independent and high extensible. Easy to use and learn.

Applacrity is a framework for the rapid development of web applications that provides Ruby on Rails like ease of use combined with the power of the Java and J2EE platform.

PROJECT MOVED TO https://nortal.github.io/araneaframework/ Aranea is a Java Hierarchical Model-View-Controller Web Framework that provides a common simple approach to building the web application components, reusing custom or general GUI logic and extending the framework.

Bimbo is a Java web framework to construct web applications using only annotated POJO's. The idea behind it is that a developer should not bother about look and feel of an application, but to let the framework handle all these details.

Platform for creating workflow based systems like DMS, CMS or CRM. It use Grails as web framework, Bootstrap as UI, Activiti as process engine.