JAVA Update

The Java Update is a feature that keeps your computer up-to-date automatically with the latest Java releases. Installing the Java Runtime Environment automatically installs the Java Update feature. 


The Java Update feature connects to java.com at a scheduled time and checks to see if there is an update available.

Vaadin - JAVA Framework

Vaadin is a web application framework for Rich Internet Applications (RIA). In contrast to Javascript libraries and browser-plugin based solutions, it features a server-side architecture, which means that the largest part of the logic runs on the server. Ajax technology is used on the browser side to ensure a rich and interactive user experience. Developers compose the application user interface from components such as the Button, Table and Tree. The components use events, listeners and data binding to communicate with each other and with business logic. The component-based architecture together with the data binding features help building applications that are easily modularized and refactored as needed.

Pandora - JAVA Framework

Pandora is an easy to use, fast and lightweight framework for creating web applications with Java. Pandora uses Velocity for templating and provides support for Hibernate as persistence layer. It has great support for handling formular input with validators etc. and for lists, tables and trees (filtering, sorting, searching for free).

SerfJ - JAVA Framework

SerfJ is the easiest way of developing Java REST web applications. It helps you to develop your application over an elegant MVC arquitecture, giving more importance to convention than configuration, so for example, you will not have to have configuration files or annotations in order to specify which view serves a controller's method. However, SerfJ is very flexible, so if you want to jump over those conventions, you can configure the behaviour of your applications as you like.

fleXive - JAVA Framework

[fleXive] is a Java EE 5 open-source framework for the development of complex and evolving (web-)applications. It speeds up development by easing many tedious and repetitive programming tasks and helping to keep your application(s) flexible during the development-cycle and in production. [fleXive] concentrates on enterprise-scale content modeling, storage and retrieval, and includes comprehensive JSF support for displaying and manipulating these contents in (web) applications. The runtime environment can be included in existing Java EE applications, but you can also build new applications and package them into stand-alone Java EE applications. [fleXive] provides essential features for data-centric applications:

 * Secure EJB-based persistence engine
 * Web development JSF toolkit
 * Powerful administration interfaces
 * Based on the latest industry-standards like Java 6, EJB 3, JSF, etc.

Aurora - JAVA Framework

Aurora is an open-source MVC framework that is aimed at writing configurable, fully object-oriented form controllers using the Spring Framework. The code-base grew out of my experience using Spring's MVC module and slowly developed over several versions into a full-fledged framework that attempts at tackling the most common problems that I had when using Spring MVC and other J2EE web-related issues in general.

Hamlets (previously known as IBM Servlet-based Content Creation Framework)

Hamlets (previously known as IBM Servlet-based Content Creation Framework) is an open source system for generating dynamic web-pages originally developed by René Pawlitzek at IBM. A Hamlet is a servlet extension that reads XHTML template files containing presentation using SAX (the Simple API for XML) and dynamically adds content on the fly to those places in the template which are marked with special tags and IDs using a small set of callback functions. A template compiler can be used to accerate Hamlets. Hamlets provide an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand, lightweight, small-footprint, servlet-based content creation framework that facilitates the development of Web-based applications. The Hamlets framework not only supports but also enforces the complete separation of content and presentation.