Some of the new Web application development stuff to keep an eye on:
• Stripes is similar to Struts, but it goes way beyond it.
• Cewolf for embedded charts. Based on JFree chart library, however haven’t been maintained/updated in a while
• JPA for persistence JPA is an ORM standard which can be implemented by ORM technology like Hibernate, OpenJPA etc. There are even some plugin projects that enable you to use hibernate or jpa with very little configuration.
• Display for HTML tables.
• Wicket It is a component oriented framework. It allows you to write your web application in plain old Java code, you can use POJOs as the model for all components and don’t need to mess around with huge XML configuration files.
• Spring MVC The configuration may only pay you if we are writing a huge application. However, the configuration can be minimized by annotations.
• Grails There is very little configuration to do, no XML and you’re up and running with a full database application in a very less time. However, it hides a lot from you, so when things go south it can be very time consuming to find the problem.
• Spring Acegi security plugin.
• GWT Java to Java Script cross-compiler.
• EXT-JS
