Grails, a web application framework built on the Groovy programming language, offers significant assistance with database development in Java through its integrated features and tools.

Spring Boot, a project from the larger Spring ecosystem, has been a dominant framework in the Java world for building web applications and microservices.

Spring is perhaps the best of the component-based frameworks that emerged at the turn of the 21st century. It vastly improves the way that developers write and deliver infrastructure code in Java ...

The frenetic innovation in web application frameworks may be frustrating for developers, but it's necessary.

Java EE's Servlet and JSP API provide a fine foundation for handling a web-based request-response cycle. Adding UI frameworks like JSR-371 to the spec only causes problems.

Web application framework and Java middleware Web application frameworks help enterprise application developers focus on the business logic that makes enterprise application indispensable without ...

Request handling is the bread and butter of Java web application development. In order to respond to requests from the network, a Java web application must first determine what code will respond ...

While the results cannot be extrapolated to a large web application, it serves nonetheless to analyze the differences between the Java frameworks considered in the study.

The open source OpenXava project, which recently announced its 4.8 release, is filling a niche among enterprise developers charged with building Web apps fast. Built in Java, the OpenXava framework is ...