JEE Development

whooaaaa. No conjunction with a mouse or a new game. click and play are – beside wicket (http://wicket.apache.org/) – young webframeworks.

simplifying the development and maintenance by reusing components and rapid development comes more popular in our days.

So click! and play! are noteworthy young frameworks. Play! development process needs no compile, deploy or restart the server. Play! provides integration with Hibernate and OpenID  is ready for RESTful webservices and it´s scalable. When an error occurs, Play! shows you the source code and the exact line containing the problem.

click! is a component and page centric framework. Click uses an event based programming model for processing Servlet requests and Velocity for rendering the response but JSP or Freemarker are also supported. It uses one servlet as a request dispatcher. If the servlet servlet is invoked by request it creates a page object to process the request. A template (Velocity, JSP or Freemarker) is used to render the results.

click! here

play! here

Sean Kelly (http://seankelly.tv/videos) created a few month ago a webcast comparing web application frameworks. It´s totally worth
watching it. So, due to the reason, that the webcast is nearly 2 years old, jee developers, managers and decision makers should also consider that there are new and interesting frameworks like appfuse,  seam and wicket to evaluate. Also the webcast contains only trivial demos.

Screencast URL: http://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov/better-web-app.mov

The graphs of frameworks (JSF, Ruby rails, Spring MVC, Webwork, Struts 2, Tapestry) from indeed.com shows job trends. It´s interesting to see that the Java Server Faces Framework is the framework matching the most job postings today.

Take me to the graph!

Take also a look at the Javapolis (2007) Whiteboard results page and the web framework usage.
Struts 1.x has the same amount of voting results like JSF. Spring is nearby. But i think Struts 1.x votes are high because it´s actually the oldest framework among tapestry.