[fleXive] is a JavaEE 5 open source (LGPL 2.1 or higher) 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.
Based on the latest industry-standards like EJB 3, JSF, etc. [fleXive] should be your choice for building up your own new application.
JSF Flex goal is to provide users capability in creating standard Flex components as JSF components. So users would create the components as normal JSF components and the project will create the necessary SWC, SWF files and etcetera and link the values of the components back to the managed beans using JSON+Javascript and Actionscript. {standard Flex components has been open sourced through MPL license}
Currently many of the standard rich flex widgets (buttons, sliders, inputs [richTextEditor, textArea, ...], progressbars, colorpickers, various panels [accordion, tabBar, ...], and etcetera) have been written as intention of support.
Exadel Flamingo provides a set of commands that help a developer to generate initial code. To bootstrap a project, a developer answers a few questions in a wizard. Based on these questions, a standard project is generated. Flamingo is based on Maven, therefore the new application is generated according to Maven conventions, making it easy for people familiar with Maven to navigate through the project.
The generated code provides all the necessary plumbing and connectivity from Flex or JavaFX to Seam or Spring. A developer only needs to focus on business functionality; Flamingo takes care of the rest. All communications between the user interface and Seam or Spring components are taken care of by Exadel Flamingo.
Exadel Flamingo also provides a set of Flex components that make it extremely convenient to support specific features of Seam on the client side.
Exadel Fiji
Exadel Fiji is an extension to JavaServer Faces to fully encapsulate Flex.
Exadel Fiji extends JSF by allowing the use of Flex with JSF components and within a JSF page. When using Fiji Flex components, developers can use Flex with the same familiar JSF component-based approach to building user interfaces.
This will be the first of a small series of blogs covering proposed new features in JSF 2.0.
Keep in mind that none of the features described are final, and may change, but
this is a good opportunity to show the features as they exist now and illicit feedback.
Basegen is an Open Source MDA code generation tool based on AndroMDA. It can quickly generate an entire application from UML model in a simple way. Basegen uses state-of-art open source technologies like: Maven, Subversion, MyFaces, Spring, Hibernate, JasperReports, Acegi Security.
jtracc allows you to translate your JSF web-application directly in the web-browser. You will never again lose the context during the translation process! This is realizable by extending your project with jtracc (more information available in the tutorials).
The traditional way to integrate JSF and Spring was to define JSF beans in faces-config as managed beans and refer to the spring beans using the managed-property configuration. With the help of the spring’s delegatingvariableresolver the managed property is resolved from spring application context and JSF’s IOC injects the bean to the JSF Managed bean instance. I’ve written an article it about this way before.First approach is modelled as follows
JSF-Spring-JPA is the popular stack of choice these days, mostly to be used in my consulting and training purposes I’ve created a base project called MovieStore demonstrating the annotation-driven integration of JSF-Spring-JPA. JSF backing beans, spring service level beans and DAO’s are configured and integrated with annotations. Only the core infrastructure like datasource, entityManagerFactory or transactionManager are configured with xml.
Metawidget takes your domain objects and automatically creates User Interface components for them, saving you handcoding your UIs and leaving you to concentrate on stitching together your application.
As much as possible, Metawidget does this without introducing new technologies. It inspects, at runtime, an application's existing back-end architecture (such as JavaBeans, annotations, XML configuration files) and creates components native to its existing front-end framework (such as Swing, Java Server Faces, Struts or Android).
Metawidget does not hide the power of your existing User Interface framework from you and guarantees that your investment in its technology and knowledge is as valid as always. The LGPL open source license allows the use of Metawidget in open source and commercial projects.