Spring is an Application framework which has Inversion of Control container, Aspect-oriented programming framework, Data access, Transaction management, Model-view-controller for web, Remote access framework (RPC) and lot more. It is well integrated with Toplink, Hibernate, JDO, and iBATIS. Spring Social is an extension of the Spring Framework that enables applications to connect with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers such as Facebook and Twitter and interact with those services on behalf of their users.

Spring is an Application framework which has Inversion of Control container, Aspect-oriented programming framework, Data access, Transaction management, Model-view-controller for web, Remote access framework (RPC) and lot more. It is well integrated with Toplink, Hibernate, JDO, and iBATIS.

Spring - Application Framework

Dropwizard is a Java framework for developing ops-friendly, high-performance, RESTful web services. It pulls together stable, mature libraries from the Java ecosystem into a simple, light-weight package that lets you focus on getting things done. 
 
Dropwizard has out-of-the-box support for sophisticated configuration, application metrics, logging, operational tools, and much more, allowing you and your team to ship a production-quality web service in the shortest time possible.
 
Dropwizard straddles the line between being a library and a framework. Its goal is to provide performant, reliable implementations of everything a production-ready web application needs. Because this functionality is extracted into a reusable library, your application remains lean and focused, reducing both time-to-market and maintenance burdens.

Dropwizard is a Java framework for developing ops-friendly, high-performance, RESTful web services. It pulls together stable, mature libraries from the Java ecosystem into a simple, light-weight package that lets you focus on getting things done. 

dropwizard - A damn simple library for building production-ready RESTful web services.

Spark is a micro framework for creating web applications in Kotlin and Java 8 with minimal effort. It is a simple and expressive Java/Kotlin web framework DSL built for rapid development. Sparks intention is to provide an alternative for Kotlin/Java developers that want to develop their web applications as expressive as possible and with minimal boilerplate. With a clear philosophy Spark is designed not only to make you more productive, but also to make your code better under the influence of Spark’s sleek, declarative and expressive syntax.

Spark - A simple expressive web framework for java

Light 4j is a fast, lightweight and cloud native microservices framework. Light means lightweight, lighting fast and shed light on how to program with modern Java SE. It is 44 times faster than the most popular microservices platform Spring Boot embedded Tomcat and use only 1/5 of memory. 
Its features include: 
<ul>
<li>Plugin architecture for startup/shutdown hooks and middleware components</li>
<li>Distributed OAuth2 JWT security verification as part of the framework</li>
<li>Request and response validation against OpenAPI specification at runtime</li>
<li>Metrics collected in influxdb and viewed from Grafana Dashboard for both services and clients</li>
<li>Global exception handling for runtime exception, api exception and other checked exceptions</li>
<li>Mask sensitive data like credit card, sin number etc. before logging</li>
<li>Sanitize cross site scripting for query parameters, request headers and body</li>
<li>Audit to dump important info or entire request and response.</li>
<li>Body parser to support different content types</li>
<li>Standardized response code and messages from configuration file</li>
<li>Externalized configuration for all modules for dockerized environment</li>
<li>CORS pre-flight handler for SPA (Angular or React) from another domain</li>
<li>Rate limiting for services that exposed outside to the Internet</li>
<li>Service registry and discovery support direct, Consul and Zookeeper</li>
<li>Client side discovery and load balance to eliminate proxies</li>
<li>A client module that is tightly integrated with Light-OAuth2 and supports traceability</li>
</ul>

Light 4j is a fast, lightweight and cloud native microservices framework. Light means lightweight, lighting fast and shed light on how to program with modern Java SE. It is 44 times faster than the most popular microservices platform Spring Boot embedded Tomcat and use only 1/5 of memory.

light-4j - A fast, lightweight and more productive microservices framework

Ninja is a full stack web framework for Java. It is made up of libraries that deliver everything. From Html, Json and Xml rendering and parsing to management of different environments, database persistence, testing and much more.
 
<ul>
 <li>Web friendly. Restful architecture. Simple programming model.</li><li>Plain vanilla Java. Dependency Injection. First class IDE integration.</li><li>Super fast development cycles.</li><li>Simple and fast to test (Mocked tests / Integration tests).</li><li>Excellent build and CI support.</li><li>Simple JSON consumption and rendering for clean RESTful APIs.</li><li>HTML rendering / Form submission validation and parsing.</li><li>Built-in support for authentication of users.</li><li>Not much bytecode magic. Clean codebase - easy to extend.</li>
</ul>

Ninja is a full stack web framework for Java. It is made up of libraries that deliver everything. From Html, Json and Xml rendering and parsing to management of different environments, database persistence, testing and much more.

Ninja - Ninja is a full stack web framework for Java

MyFaces is a family of projects related to the JavaServer Faces (JSF) specification published as part of the Java Community Process. The "core" project is an implementation of that specification. Other MyFaces projects implement related specifications (eg the Portlet Bridge), or add features to any JSF implementation (not just the Myfaces Core). JavaServer(tm) Faces (JSF) is a web application framework specification (JSR252, JSR127) based around the model-view-controller pattern. The Apache MyFaces project provides both an implementation of the JSF specification ("MyFaces Core"), and a set of add-on libraries that work on any implementation of the specification (including, of course, Apache MyFaces Core). JSF is quite similar to the <a class="http" href="http://jakarta.apache.org/tapestry">Tapestry framework</a> as that is also a component-based framework. JSF can also fill the same "niche" as the well-known <a class="http" href="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/">Struts framework</a>, but has a rather different approach.

 The Apache MyFaces project provides: 
 <UL>
	<LI>A JavaServer(tm) Faces implementation (MyFaces API, MyFaces Impl modules)</LI>
	<LI>Several component libraries containing UI widgets for building web-applications with JSF (e.g. MyFaces Tomahawk, MyFaces Trinidad, MyFaces Tobago)</LI>
	<LI>Extension packages to JavaServer(tm) Faces (e.g. MyFaces Orchestra, MyFaces Extensions Validator)</LI>
	<LI>integration modules to other technologies and standards (e.g. MyFaces Portlet Bridge for integration with the portlet-standard)</LI>
 </UL>

MyFaces is a family of projects related to the JavaServer Faces (JSF) specification published as part of the Java Community Process. The "core" project is an implementation of that specification. Other MyFaces projects implement related specifications (eg the Portlet Bridge), or add features to any JSF implementation (not just the Myfaces Core).

MyFaces

Blade is a pursuit of simple, efficient Web framework, so that Java web development even more powerful, both in performance and flexibility. The design is simple, easy to understand and doesn't introduce many layers between you and the standard library. The goal of this project is that the users should be able to understand the whole framework in a single day. It supports RESTful style routing interface. It has no invasive interceptors and provides the writing of DSL grammar.
<ul>
<li> A new generation of MVC frameworks that do not depend on more libraries</li>
<li> Get rid of SSH's bloated, modular design</li>
<li> Source less than <code>500kb</code>, learning is also simple</li>
<li> Restful style routing design</li>
<li> Template engine support, view development more flexible</li>
<li> High performance, 100 concurrent qps 14w/s</li>
<li> Run the <code>JAR</code> package to open the web service</li>
<li> Streaming API style</li>
<li> Supports plug-in extensions</li>
<li> Support webjars resources</li>
<li> Built-in a variety of commonly used middleware</li>
<li> Built-in JSON output</li>
<li> JDK8 +</li>
</ul>

Blade is a pursuit of simple, efficient Web framework, so that Java web development even more powerful, both in performance and flexibility. The design is simple, easy to understand and doesn't introduce many layers between you and the standard library. The goal of this project is that the users should be able to understand the whole framework in a single day. It supports RESTful style routing interface. It has no invasive interceptors and provides the writing of DSL grammar.

Blade - Lightning fast and elegant MVC framework for Java8

JHipster is a Yeoman generator, used to create a Spring Boot + Angular project. Its goal is to generate for you a complete and modern Web app. It provides a high-performance and robust Java stack on the server side with Spring Boot, A sleek, modern, mobile-first front-end with Angular and Bootstrap and a powerful workflow to build your application with Yeoman, Webpack/Gulp and Maven/Gradle.

JHipster - Create  Spring Boot + Angular projects in seconds

Ratpack is a set of Java libraries for building modern HTTP applications. It provides just enough for writing practical, high performance, apps. It is built on Java 8, Netty and reactive principles. It is similar to NodeJS, helps to implement non blocking HTTP apps in Java.


Ratpack - A toolkit for JVM web applications

Vaadin is a Java framework for building modern web applications. It helps to create Rich Internet Applications faster. It has dozens of in-built UI component like Button, Tree etc which is event driven. Vaadin browser widgets is built on GWT and it support all Ajax-capable browsers. Developers need to know only Java and no JavaScript or XML knowledge is required. It is integrated with Eclipse and Netbeans IDE. It runs on all popular Application servers.

Vaadin is a Java framework for building modern web applications. It helps to create Rich Internet Applications faster. It has dozens of in-built UI component like Button, Tree etc which is event driven. Vaadin browser widgets is built on GWT and it support all Ajax-capable browsers.

Vaadin - Web Framework to build Rich Internet Application

Struts is a Web Framework which uses Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. The Model represents the business or database code, the View represents the page design code, and the Controller represents the navigational code.
  Struts works well with conventional REST applications, SOAP and AJAX.

Struts - Java Web Framework

Bootique is a minimally opinionated java launcher and integration technology. It is intended for building container-less runnable Java applications. With Bootique you can create REST services, webapps, jobs, DB migration tasks, etc. and run them as if they were simple commands. No JavaEE container required! Among other things Bootique is an ideal platform for Java microservices, as it allows you to create a fully-functional app with minimal setup.

Bootique - Minimally opinionated platform for modern runnable Java apps

The goal of this project is to create a micro web framework in Java that should be easy to use and hack. Pippo can be used in small and medium applications and also in applications based on micro services architecture. Also, Pippo comes with a very small footprint that makes it excellent for embedded devices (Raspberry Pi for example).

pippo - Micro Java Web Framework

Jooby a scalable, fast and modular micro web framework for Java. Write your application in Java or JavaScript. It supports  Express.js, Sinatra, Scripting programming model. It also supports Spring like MVC model. NIO web servers, Caching, Web sockets, Dependency Injection and lot more.


Jooby - A Scalable, fast and modular micro web framework for Java

RESTX is the lightweight, modular, feature rich, blazing fast, open source Java REST framework. It shares similarities with modern frameworks like Play! like hot compile and a very productive experience, but focused on REST and pure Java.
 
It is focused more on Rest. This implies that it’s not a general web framework, i.e., there is no templating mechanism. It’s better use with a JavaScript framework on the client side, and you can always use any other templating mechanism to serve your pages.

RESTX is the lightweight, modular, feature rich, blazing fast, open source Java REST framework. It shares similarities with modern frameworks like Play! like hot compile and a very productive experience, but focused on REST and pure Java.

RESTX - the lightweight Java REST framework

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