1.
Spring:
Spring is a powerful, lightweight, and most popular framework which makes
Java quicker, easier, and safer to use. This framework is very popular among
developers for its speed, simplicity, and productivity which helps to create
enterprise-level web applications with complete ease. Spring MVC and Spring
Boot made Java modern, reactive, and cloud-ready to build high-performance
complex web applications hence used by many tech-giants, including Netflix,
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc.
Using Spring’s flexible and comprehensive third-party libraries you can build
any web application you can imagine.
Start a new Spring project in seconds, with, fast startup, fast shutdown, and
optimized execution by default.
Spring provides a lightweight container that can be triggered without a web
server or application server.
It provides backward compatibility and easy testability of your project.
It supports JDBC which improves productivity and reduces the error as much
as possible
It supports modularity and both XML and annotation-based configuration
Spring Boot has a huge ecosystem and community with extensive
documentation and multiple Spring tutorials
2. Grails:
It is a dynamic full-stack Java framework based on the MVC design pattern.
which is easy to learn and most suitable for beginners. Grails is an object-
oriented language that enhances developer productivity. While written in
Groovy it can run on the Java platform and is perfectly compatible with Java
syntax.
Easy to Creating tags for the View,
built-in support for RESTful APIs,
you can mix Groovy and Java using Grails,
best suitable for Rapid Development,
configuration features are dynamic, no need to restart the server.
3. Google Web Toolkit (GWT):
It is a very popular open-source Java framework used by a large number of
developers around the world for building and optimizing complex browser-
based applications. This framework is used for the productive development of
high-performance complex web applications without being an expert in front-
end technologies like JavaScript or responsive design. It converts Java code
into JavaScript code which is a remarkable feature of GWT. Popular Google’s
applications like AdSense and AdWords are written and using this framework.
Google APIs are vastly used in GWT applications.
Open-source and Developer-friendly.
Easily create beautiful UIs without vast knowledge in front-end scripting
languages.
Create optimized web applications that are easy to debug.
Compiles the Java source code into JavaScript files that can run on all major
browsers.
4. Struts
It is a very useful framework, an open-source MVC framework for creating
modern enterprise-level Java web applications that favor convention over
configuration and reduce overall development time. It comes with plugins to
support REST, AJAX, and JSON and can be easily integrated with other Java
frameworks like Spring and Hibernate.
Super Flexible and beginner-friendly,
Reliable, based on MVC design pattern.
Integration with REST, JSON, and AJAX.
Creative themes and templates make development tasks faster.
Extend capabilities for complex development,
Reduced development time and Effort, makes dev easier and fun.
5. JavaServer Faces (JSF)
It is quite similar to Struts, a free web application developed framework,
maintained by Oracle technology which simplifies building user interfaces for
Server-side applications by assembling reusable UI components in a page. JSF
is a component-based MVC framework that encapsulates various client-side
technologies and focuses more on the presentation layer to allow web
developers to create UI simply by just drag and drop.
Rich libraries and reusable UI components,
Easy front end tools to use without too much coding,
JSF helps to improve productivity and consistency,
Enrich the user experience by adding Ajax events for validations and method
invocations.
It provides an API to represent and manage UI components and instead of
using Java, JSF uses XML for view handling.
6. Hibernate
A stable, lightweight ORM Java framework that can easily communicate with
any database and is more convenient when working with multiple databases.
Working with Hibernate is fun using powerful APIs and several useful tools like
Mapping Editor, Wizards, and Reverse Engineering. Many big companies
including Platform, DAILY HOTEL, IBM, and Dell use Hibernate in their tech
stacks,
Light-weight and easy to scale up, modify, and configure.
Complex data manipulation with less coding.
High productivity and portability,
Used for RDBMS as well as the NoSQL database.
Awesome Command-line tools and IDE plugins to makes your experience
pleasant.
8. Vaadin
An open-source client-server framework, with an active worldwide community
that allows you to create complex and dynamic web applications using pre-
designed UI components. Write UI in plain Java without even bothering JS,
HTML, and CSS. You can also create layouts with a visual designer instead of
HTML. Vaadin provides a server-side architecture which helps developers to
create dynamic and interactive interfaces for the web. Using Vaadin access to
the DOM directly from the Java virtual machine. The updated components can
be combined with other frontend JavaScript technologies such as React or even
plain JavaScript.
High developer productivity and fast development;
Built on the Web Components standards,
Provides many components, and different listeners,
Automates client-server communication and routing,
Has good documentation and an active community.
