Spring is a lightweight Java/J2EE application framework based on code published in "Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development" by Rod Johnson. It includes powerful JavaBeans-based configuration management applying Inversion-of-Control principles, a generic abstraction layer for transaction management allowing for pluggable transaction managers, a JDBC abstraction layer, integration with Hibernate, JDO, Apache OJB, and iBATIS SQL Maps, AOP functionality, and a flexible MVC Web application fra...
The Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) project extends the Eclipse platform with tools for developing Java EE and Web applications. The WTP project includes the following tools: source editors for HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JSP, SQL, XML, DTD, XSD, and WSDL; graphical editors for XSD and WSDL; Java EE project setup, builders, and models, Java EE contributions to the common navigators; a Web service wizard and explorer, and WS-I Test Tool.
Jetty is an Open Source HTTP Servlet Server written in Java. It is a full featured HTTP/1.1 server and a Servlet container. It is designed to be small, fast, embeddable and extensible. It supports HTTP/1.1, servlets 2.5, and JSP 2.1.
JBoss Application Server is the #1 most widely used Java application server on the market. A J2EE certified platform for developing and deploying enterprise Java applications, Web applications, and Portals, JBoss Application Server provides the full range of J2EE 1.4 features as well as extended enterprise services including clustering, caching, and persistence.
Quartz is an enterprise-class job scheduler for integration with stand-alone Java applications and full-scale J2EE applications. Advanced features include clustering and participation in container managed transactions. It is highly scalable, very lightweight, and supports very complex scheduling.
The GlassFish community is building free, open source, production-quality, enterprise software. The main deliverables is a production-quality Application Server that is also the Java EE 5 Reference Implementation.
There are 3 ongoing releases of the GlassFish AppServer. GlassFish v1 is in production. GlassFish v2 adds clustering, failover, features and performance and is close to beta3. GlassFish v3 adds a modular architecture with a very small kernel and is in early technology preview...
Ehcache is a widely used java distributed cache for general purpose caching, J2EE and light-weight containers.
It features memory and disk stores, replicate by copy and invalidate, listeners, a gzip caching servlet filter and much more...
Ehcache is available under an Apache open source license and is actively developed, maintained and supported.
JasperReports is a Java reporting library. XML report templates are used to generate ready to print documents using data from customizable data sources, including JDBC. The output can be delivered to the screen, printer, or stored in PDF, HTML, XLS, RTF, ODT, CSV, TXT and XML format.
With proper mark-up/logic separation, a POJO data model, and a refreshing lack of XML, Apache Wicket makes developing web-apps simple and enjoyable again. Swap the boilerplate, complex debugging and brittle code for powerful, reusable components written with plain Java and HTML.
Apache ActiveMQ is a fast Message Bus which supports many Cross Language Clients and Protocols and many advanced features while fully supporting JMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4.
Struts is a framework for developing Java EE web applications. It uses and extends the Java Servlet API to encourage developers to adopt an MVC architecture. Struts 2 is the result of the merger of Struts and WebWork framework development. Some of its features are Spring integration, POJO forms, POJO actions, first-class AJAX support, stateful checkboxes, enhanced tags, and HTTP independent framework interfaces.
Liferay Portal is the world's leading enterprise open source portal framework, offering integrated Web publishing and content management, an enterprise service bus and service-oriented architecture, and compatibility with all major IT infrastructures.
A JavaServer Faces specific view-technology that combines the ease of Tapestry-like components with the familiar syntax of JSP within valid XML-syntax and EL use. Incorporating custom UIComponents is extremely easy, including being able to define Component trees in other files. Additional features include a high performance templating framework that makes composing JSF pages extremely simple.
The Open Web SSO project provides core identity services to simplify the implementation of transparent single sign-on as a security component in a network infrastructure. It provides the foundation for integrating diverse web applications that might typically operate against a disparate set of identity repositories and are hosted on a variety of platforms such as web and application servers.
MyFaces is the first free implementation of Suns new JavaServer (tm) Faces (aka JSF). See http://java.sun.com/j2ee/javaserverfaces for more information.
Apache Cocoon is a web development framework built around the concepts of separation of concerns and component-based web development. 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.
A collection of modules, add-ons and integration tools for the Spring Framework.
DWR (Direct Web Remoting) is Easy Ajax for Java
DWR enables Java code on the server and JavaScript code in a browser to interact and call each other as simply as possible, making it easy for developers to add data into web pages.
DWR generates JavaScript to allow web browsers to securely call into Java code almost as if it was running locally. It can marshall virtually any data including collections, POJOs, XML and binary data like images and PDF files. All that is required is a secu...
The goal of the Geronimo project is to produce a server runtime framework that pulls together the best Open Source alternatives to create runtimes that meet the needs of developers and system administrators. Geronimo 2.0 is a fully certified Java EE 5 application server runtime. Websphere Application Server Community Edition from IBM is based on this code.
JBoss Portal provides an open source platform for hosting and serving a portal's Web interface, publishing and managing its content, and customizing its experience.