Web application frameworks help enterprise application developers focus on the business logic that makes enterprise application indispensable without focusing too much effort on ensuring that the ...

When evaluating tools and frameworks, it's very important to understand how they support the specific applications that your teams are developing. Using tools that are well designed for the task at ...

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 ...

Pivotal™ today announced the release of the Spring Framework 4.0. A central component of the recently announced Spring IO platform, Spring Framework 4.0 gives both Java and Groovy developers a simpler ...

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 ...

Not so web application frameworks. A quick glance at Google Trends shows the waxing and waning of popularity in JavaScript land (Figure A): Figure A ...

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.

Many of the popular web application frameworks work remarkably well on small machines. This is, in part, due to the push to shrink and simplify the server side of Java web applications.