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Top 23 Java Web Framework Projects
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Spring Boot
Spring Boot helps you to create Spring-powered, production-grade applications and services with absolute minimum fuss.
Key Steps to Implement mTLS in Spring Boot
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InfluxDB
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Detailed information can be found in the release notes.
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sofa-boot
SOFABoot is a framework that enhances Spring Boot and fully compatible with it, provides readiness check, class isolation, etc.
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Solon
🔥 Java enterprise application development framework for full scenario: Restrained, Efficient, Open, Ecologicalll!!! 700% higher concurrency 50% memory savings Startup is 10 times faster. Packing 90% smaller; Compatible with java8 ~ java24. (Replaceable spring)
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Ninja
Ninja is a full stack web framework for Java. Rock solid, fast and super productive. (by ninjaframework)
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Project mention: Show HN: Gov.uk Vue, a Vue Component Library for the Gov.uk Design System | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-02
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Project mention: Year After Switching from Java to Go: Our Experiences | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-18
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No, it handed it to a foundation after signaling it would for well over a year:
"In 2011 with the introduction of the Dart programming language, Google stated that GWT would continue to be supported for the foreseeable future while also hinting at a possible rapprochement between the two Google approaches to structured web programming. However, they also mentioned that several of the engineers previously working on GWT are now working on Dart.[6]"
It funded/helped the foundation for some number of years after that.
It still is going, afaik, with gwt 2.11 being released in january, 2024.
https://www.gwtproject.org/
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struts
Apache Struts is a free, open-source, MVC framework for creating elegant, modern Java web applications
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hilla
Build better business applications, faster. No more juggling REST endpoints or deciphering GraphQL queries. Hilla seamlessly connects Spring Boot and React to accelerate application development.
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ActiveJ
ActiveJ is an alternative Java platform built from the ground up. ActiveJ redefines core, web and high-load programming in Java, providing simplicity, maximum performance and scalability
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javalite
JavaLite is a cohesive collection of frameworks designed from ground up to add pleasure back to your daily life
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Takes
True Object-Oriented Java Web Framework without NULLs, Static Methods, Annotations, and Mutable Objects
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Project mention: Show HN: Latudio – a language acquisition app with a listening-oriented approach | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-04
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minum
A web framework employing system-thinking that takes minimalism, kaizen and TDD to an extreme.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Web Framework projects in Java? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spring Boot | 77,061 |
| 2 | Spring | 58,010 |
| 3 | Blade | 5,862 |
| 4 | sofa-boot | 5,020 |
| 5 | jfinal | 3,247 |
| 6 | Solon | 2,495 |
| 7 | Ratpack | 1,944 |
| 8 | Ninja | 1,905 |
| 9 | PrimeFaces | 1,843 |
| 10 | Vaadin | 1,790 |
| 11 | Jooby | 1,735 |
| 12 | Google Web Toolkit | 1,565 |
| 13 | Bootique | 1,414 |
| 14 | struts | 1,312 |
| 15 | hilla | 957 |
| 16 | cicada | 949 |
| 17 | ActiveJ | 951 |
| 18 | javalite | 860 |
| 19 | Takes | 826 |
| 20 | Pippo | 785 |
| 21 | Apache Wicket | 759 |
| 22 | actframework | 748 |
| 23 | minum | 623 |
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