You may want to take a look at the open source Expresso 4.0ea
(www.jcorporate.com) and Struts projects
(http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/index.html). Apache Jakarta Struts
Framework is a thin MVC light weight framework. Expresso 4.0ea a full
application development framework which complements Struts with additional
components for developing database-driven web applications. These are the
two leading OSS frameworks based on relative size developer listserv
communities.
Struts developers will be interested in Expresso if they need to communicate
with databases often, don't want to write their own security for servlets
and actions,
and need a lot of the grunt work taken out of writing object to relational
table mapping.
With Release 4.0ea Expresso has made Controller objects available to Struts
as Actions, so the URL mapping, configuration, and other great capabilities
of Struts are available - with all of the advantages that Expresso standard
Web application functionality provides such as Controller object, DBObjects
(object-relational mapping), configuration management, security, database
connection pooling, email connectivity, job control, logging, event
notification, caching, internationalization, and more. The Controller
servlet (ActionServlet) still handles dispatching, then the specific
Controller object provides the UI-independant business logic.
Expresso 4.0 will be released in the next week or two. The 4.0ea version is
the early access version. A users needs to be logged in to download the
early access version only.
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