by Sandeep Desai (http://www.thedesai.net)
Below is a list of J2EE Frameworks, API, Containers, IDE etc
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Type |
Framework |
Features |
Release |
Under Development |
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Framework |
DI (Ioc), integrates with Hibernate, iBatis, Xfire, Eclispe Plugin |
1.2 |
2.0 |
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JBoss Seam |
Hibernate, JSF. Makes it easy to manage State |
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Oracle ADF |
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ORM |
ORM better than EJB2 (My Doc) |
3.1 |
3.2 |
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EJB 2 |
All J2EE Container |
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JBoss EJB3 over Hibernate |
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Apache iBATIS |
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Oracle Toplink Essentials (EJB3) |
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EJB3 (JPA) |
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JDBC |
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MVC |
Servlets and JSP |
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Struts 1.2 |
Model 2 Framework |
1.2 |
2.0 |
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Struts Action 2.0 (WebWork 2.3) |
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Not released |
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Spring MVC |
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Spring WebFlow |
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Oracle ADF |
JSF Based |
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JSF (Java Server Faces) |
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Apache MyFaces |
JSF Based, |
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Apache Trinidad |
Based on Oracle ADF |
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Tapestry |
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Google Web Toolkit |
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Web Services |
Apache Axis |
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XFire |
Web Services |
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Reporting |
JasperReports |
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Eclipse BIRT |
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Charting |
JFreeChart |
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Testing |
JUnit |
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Building |
Ant |
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Maven |
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AJAX |
Dojo (Javascript) |
AJAX, Tree, Tab, CSS effects |
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JSON (Javascript Object Notation) |
Use JSON instead of XML for data exchange |
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DWR (Direct Web Remoting) |
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AOP |
Spring (Run time) |
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AspectJ (Compile time) |
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IDE |
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3.2 |
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5.0 |
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Sun NetBeans |
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5.4 |
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Oracle JDeveloper |
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10.1.0.3 |
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Websphere Application Developer |
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J2EE Containers |
Tomcat (Servlets, JSP) |
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JBoss |
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Apache Geronimo |
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IBM Websphere |
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BEA Weblogic |
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Oracle OC4J |
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Sun Glassfish |
J2EE 5 |
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Databases |
Oracle Enterprise Edition (Free to try and install) |
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Oracle XE (Free) |
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MySQL (Free) |
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HSQLDB (Free database implemented in Java) |
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Postgre SQL |
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Microsoft SQL Server |
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IBM DB2 |
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BI and OLAP |
Pentaho |
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