In the world of Java web development, such a tool would be described as lightweight. Java microframeworks have recently emerged as the newest and leanest of frameworks yet.

For decades, Java has been the enterprise world's go-to programming language—the reliable, if somewhat verbose, workhorse powering everything from banking systems to e-commerce platforms. But when the ...

IDG Figure 1. The generator-jhipster interactive builder You can accept most of the defaults, but for this example we’ll use MongoDB as the database and React as the front-end framework (choose ...

This is nothing against JavaServer Faces (JSF), or the soon-to-be-added Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework, JSR-371. (MVC becomes part of the standard when Java EE 8 is released.) As far as ...

All of them move complexity around, but none of them eliminate it. With all that in mind, let's examine how to choose among various Java frameworks, each with their pros and cons. Jakarta EE Jakarta ...