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.

Comprehensive component-based web application framework. Works with Servlet API 2.2 and JDK 1.2 or above. Tapestry reconceptualizes web application development in terms of Java objects, methods and properties, instead of URLs and query parameters.

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 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.

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.

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.

A set of extensions for Struts adding advanced web framework features for Java 5.0 developers, including POJO actions, declarative validation, data binding and conversion, dependency injection, interceptors and pluggable navigation.

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.

The Brill Framework allows React web applications to be built quickly using a "Low Code" approach. A Content Management System (CMS) supports editing of pages containing React components. The React components communicate with each other and the Server using a middleware that's based on WebSockets. With a "No Code" solution, there's always something you require that's not support. You spend ages bending the product to your requirements or pay the supplier to provide the components you need. The alternative is a "Full Code" solution using React. This involves a lot of coding and it's not always easy to update content without doing a release. There's the option of using a Headless CMS for the content and but that only increases the amount code required. The Brill Framework provides the best of both worlds. Quick building of the application using a CMS and a set of ready made components, with the ability to add your own React components and server side functionality.

A MVC oriented client-server web framework written in C and JavaScript for Apache HTTP servers. The server executes models and the built-in template engine creates the view. The client-side is a JS API, and makes communication with the server easy.

Calyxo encourages in MVC-Model2 Java web application development. It offers support for true modular applications, i18n, flexible view management, a powerful validation engine, and more. Calyxo's Struts plugins may replace Struts' Tiles and Validator.

The Carrera Framework is a new JEE web framework, taking from some of the ideas of JSF, Tapestry (4 and 5), etc and merging them into a new flavor of a framework.

The castafiore J2EE Platform consists of an advanced Web Framework built upon JQuery and a persistence framework built upon hibernate. All together glued with spring 3. We also provide some exciting web tools like a DMS and a Portal designer

The Cherry Framework is an open source application framework and reflect container for the Java platform. The Cherry Framework includes several modules that provide range of services: -Model-view-controller framework -Web framework -User interface components -Reflect container -Remote access framework

We have abandonned work on this framework in favor of using JSF. Though JSF is not perfect, it is close enough to Chrysalis for our purpose, and has the advantage of being a standard with major industry support.

Components is a very fast and easy java web framework. The main features are: very strict separation between presentation and controller layers (no more JSP!), ease of use, very fast page rendering, zero-configuration paradigm.