The Firewater Framework lets you create sophisticated REST based web APIs for your Java and Flash/Flex based web applications. Features include:

* Spring based declarative architecture (zero code web services)
* extensible framework
* supports GET, PUT, POST, OPTIONS and DELETE HTTP methods and matches incoming URL patterns
* supports JDBC back-ends with templated SQL mappings
* supports secured web services using Acegi Spring Security
* supports paging, full-text search, sorting and filtering
* flexible cacheing strategy based on OSCache
* custom Spring schema for easy configuration