The sample application for this article demonstrates how to communicate with SharePoint from a Java client. I wrote the application using Eclipse 3.6.2 and Java 1.6.0_32.

And plenty of libraries are available on the World Wide Web. With an FTP client library, downloading a file can be written in Java as simply as: FTPClient ftpClient = new FTPClient (); ...

If you want to distance yourself from JavaScript frameworks, here are my best Java frameworks for web application development and delivery of 2020. 1. Vaadin Based in Finland — with offices in Germany ...